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...According to Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey A. Miron, while most people might come out of Justice with a Deontological idea of libertarianism, the majority of the fiscally conservative but socially liberal demographic fits more neatly into the Consequentialist camp...
...There’s this strong man version of libertarian principles which says that we have rules and rights and we do everything by these rules and rights,” says Miron. “And when you ask them why, they say, well people are happier with these rights. That’s a consequentialist view. What we’re doing is talking about the consequentialist’s arguments...
Senior Lecturer of Economics Jeffrey A. Miron, formerly a tenured professor at the University of Michigan, said that the report did not account for the vast difference between different kinds of universities in its conclusions on tenure...
...Jorgensen said that in the wake of the subprime mortgage meltdown, “The Fed is sending the message, ‘we’re taking action, we’re on the job.’” Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Miron said that he still would have liked to see Bernanke not do anything, but conceded that there were some reasonable justifications for the cut. “I don’t like the argument that the Fed needed to prevent a further subprime lending crisis,” he said...
...Journal transcript of his speech. “A sharp reduction in the interest rate, in addition to a vigorous lender of last resort policy, would attenuate that very bad outcome,” he added. But there is discord in the academic community. Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Miron feels the rate should be left alone because Bernanke has long emphasized the importance of controlling inflation. “While I don’t have all the information [Bernanke] has, I think the inflation targeting approach is a reasonable goal,” he said...