Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Investopedia / Yurle Villegas The Ricardian ...

The notion of a reverse Ricardian-equivalence is in play again today following news that U.K.’s economy grew at a 0.8 percent pace in the third quarter, double the consensus forecast (a ...

Stimulus is supposed to be the key to recovery, and governments around the world are embracing it as never before. But a long-forgotten theory dating back almost 200 years is increasingly weighing on ...

Stimulus is supposed to be the key to recovery, and governments around the world are embracing it as never before. But a long-forgotten theory dating back almost 200 years is increasingly weighing on ...

This project aims to empirically explore Ricardian equivalence using recent changes to federal payroll taxation. Ricardian equivalence, the idea that consumers are forward looking and internalize debt ...

This paper looks at theoretical and empirical issues associated with the operation of fiscal stabilisers within an economy. It argues that such stabilisers operate most effectively at a national, ...

The economic coverage in the New York Times can be really rather confusing at times. Because sometimes they're able to explain the basic ideas really rather well. For example, today they tell us about ...

English economist David Ricardo (1772-1823). theorised that consumers would respond to debt-financed government spending by saving more in anticipation of future tax rises (Photo by Hulton ...

Andrew Beattie was part of the original editorial team at Investopedia and has spent twenty years writing on a diverse range of financial topics including business, investing, personal finance, and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Faced with the biggest cuts to government budgets in generations, the British response is not to make do and ...