Nothing is sacred : economic ideas for the new millennium / Robert J. Barro.

Includes index.

Thoughts on friends and other noteworthy persons. Milton Friedman and his memoirs -- Adam Smith, including thoughts on Ken Galbraith and David Ricardo -- George Stigler and the Chicago School of Economics -- Gary Becker, the great economic imperialist -- Robert Mundell, the father of international macroeconomics -- Bob Lucas and rational expectations -- Larry Summers, the economist as Treasury Secretary and Harvard president -- Bono, the rock star as amateur economist -- Domingo Cavallo- the second coming of the Argentine savior? -- Al Gore in the balance -- George W. Bush and compassionate conservatism -- Joe DiMaggio -- Economics of social issues. Economics of beauty -- Abortion and crime -- Colombia and U.S. drug policy -- SAT scores and meritocracy in higher education -- Napster, Prozac, and intellectual property rights -- Microsoft and antitrust policy -- Personal accounts for social security : not a free lunch -- Economic growth, democracy, and things international. Eastern Germany- a lesson in welfare dependency -- Inequality and economic growth -- Democracy in the new Congo? -- Chile's presidential election -- Mexico's new democracy -- Dollarization in Russia? -- Yankee imperialism in Asia -- Dollarization and the grand Ecuadorian experiment -- My brief tenure at the World Economic Forum -- What to do with the international Monetary Fund? -- Fiscal policy, monetary policy, and the macroeconomy. Budgets and tax cuts -- September 11 and the War on Terror- what does it mean for the economy? -- Fiscal profligacy at the American Economic Association -- It's the economy- economic evaluations of the U.S. presidents -- Serious and nonserious fiscal reforms -- Mr. Greenspan and U.S. monetary policy -- And the winner of the 2000 presidential election was ... -- Oil- the good guys and the bad guys -- Exuberance and pessimism in the U.S. stock market.