Larry Summers’ interest rate conundrum. CEPS Hi-level Brief, 16 January 2014

Larry Summers has attracted much attention recently for invoking old theories of secular stagnation to explain the persistence of low interest rates in the recent past. The German economist Carl Christian von Weizsäcker has pointed to a retirement savings glut as the cause for low rates. In the view of Thomas Mayer, however, as expressed in this High-Level Brief, these theses lack both theoretical and empirical support and he offers as an alternative explanation the fall-out from the recent credit boom-bust cycle.

Narrazione delle solenni reali feste : fatte celebrare in Napoli da Sua Maestà il re delle Due Sicilie Carlo infante di Spagna, duca di Parma, Piacenza &c. &c. per la nascita del suo primogenito Filippo real principe delle Due Sicilie.

The plates depict floor plans of the Palazzo reale and of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, a vertical cross section of the Palazzo reale; interior decoration of the Teatro di San Carlo; most plates depict festivities taking place in the decorated interiors of the theater and the royal palace, including a masquerade at the royal palace, the stage scenery and a scene from the opera "Il sogno di Olimpia" by Ranieri de Calzabigi, which was performed at the Teatro di San Carlo; a view of the illuminated Castello Nuovo in Naples, the fireworks installation at the Piazza del Castello Nuovo, and a floorplan of the fire works installation. Plate XI depicts the mythical land of plenty "Cuccagna", arranged as a landscaped hill with an architectural grotto, richly decorated with food and drink, which was offered as part of the festivities to the common people. Most plates have a detailed legend in the lower margin.

Institutiones juris naturae et gentium : in quibus ex ipsa hominis natura continuo nexu omnes obligationes et jura omnia deduntur /

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Christiani Wolffii ... Elementa matheseos universae : tomus tertius, qui opticam, perspectivam, catropticam, dioptricam, sphaerica & trigonometriam sphaericam, atque astronomiam, tam sphaericam quam theoricam, complectitur.

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Des Vollständigen Mathematischen Lexici, zweyter theil, Worinne nicht allein die in der Planimetrie, Altimetrie und Stereometrie nöthige, und nützliche Tafel der Wurzel-Quadrat und Cubik-Zahlen bis 10000, desgleichen der Canon Triangulorum, so denn Henrici Briggii 20 Chiliades Logarithmorum ...

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Compendium elementorum matheseos universae : in usum studiosae juventutis adornatum /

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Christiani Wolfii ... Elementa matheseos universae : tomus secundus, qui mechanicam cum statica, hydrostaticam, aerometriam atque hydraulicam complectitur.

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Trattato delle principali e delle piu frequenti malattie esterne ed interne ad uso degl'iniziati in medicina, dei chirurgo-medici e dei praticanti che suppliscono in mancanza dei medici graduati ... /

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Christiani Wolfii ... Elementa matheseos universae : tomus tertius, qui opticam, perspectiuam, catoptricam, dioptricam, sphaerica & trigonometriam sphaericam, atque astronomiam, tam sphaericam quám theoricam, complectitur

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Trattato delle principali e delle piu frequenti malattie esterne ed interne ad uso degl'iniziati in medicina, dei chirurgo-medici e dei praticanti che suppliscono in mancanza dei medici graduati ... /

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Theologia naturalis : methodo scientifica pertractata : pars prior ... /

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Theologia naturalis : methodo scientifica pertractata : pars posterior ... /

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