Willem Buiter

Willem Buiter is <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/europeanInstitute/raw/StaffPages/buiter.htm">professor</a> of European political economy, London School of Economics and Political Science; f

Against stimulus: UK and USA don't have the social capital

In the past I have argued in the context of developing countries that deficit-financed fiscal stimuli will not work if governments cannot credibly match current tax cuts or public spending

By Willem Buiter

/ 14 Feb 2009

The end of American capitalism (as we knew it)

This is what I read this morning, 17 September 2008, on FT.com: "The US Federal Reserve announced that it will lend AIG up to $85bn in emergency funds

By Willem Buiter

/ 20 Sep 2008