economic theories

I'm sorry, but the thread title, "Is communism a viable alternative economic system these days?" has been bugging me since the day it was posted: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=226311 Forget about "these days": Was communism ever actually viable? Were there ever...

Split from Cubans: Tell us about your country. Like many other countries in the "developed" world the UK's religion is shopping, particularly at this special time of the year.

I just want to demonstrate something about money creation and destruction. So, here's a question: Before the Fed existed, banks engaged in fractional reserve banking, not because they were forced to, but because they chose to. Even without a Federal Reserve, banks will engage in fractional...

Apparantly Rudy Giuliani has a new ad in which he claims: There is an ideology or set of claims (it's not a true branch of science any more than Creation Science or Intelligent Design) called "Supply-side Economics" aka "Voodoo Economics" that claims that reducing tax rates increases tax...

I came accross Ron Paul's maybe a year or so ago. As I do have an economics background and my specialty being monetary systems, I could assess what he says. Since I'm not living in the US, (you may have noticed I write with an accent) I however know fairly little actually about him. With this...