Archive - Heterogeneous Agents

End of racial segregation, end of inequality? (I)

The South African case

Aug 14 •

Heterogeneous Agents

Is Public Spending in Brazil Efficient?

Recently, the Datafolha Institute published a survey on the use of public resources.

Aug 10 •

Benito Salomão

Has the South African Reserve Bank gone rogue?

Last week Friday something unprecedented happened in the macroeconomic policy framework of South Africa.

Aug 5 •

Heterogeneous Agents

Central Bank Autonomy as a Civilizational Achievement: the Brazilian Case

Worse than inflation, only civil war – this is a very common phrase informally used in economics departments of major universities around the world to…

Aug 3 •

Douglas Elmauer

July 2025

Distributive Considerations on Fiscal Policy

The essence of modern welfare theory has been to define economic efficiency in terms that exclude distributive considerations.” (Musgrave & Musgrave…

Jul 31 •

Benito Salomão

Is the South African young democracy breeding its own support?

Let's look at the data

Jul 29 •

Heterogeneous Agents

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