MMT, Models, Multidisciplinarity
Pavlina Tcherneva does the heavy lifting of debunking an off-the-mark attack on MMT by Noah Smith.
Read more...Pavlina Tcherneva does the heavy lifting of debunking an off-the-mark attack on MMT by Noah Smith.
Read more...The World Bank continues its proud tradition of making the world safe for rentiers, um, financiers.
Read more...Today, the divide from which Marine Le Pen profits has reached alarming proportions, most recently with the eruption of the revolt of the gilets jaunes.
Read more...Bill Black uses Tom Friedman’s recognition just this week that Brexit is a mess as the foundation of a detailed takedown of Friedman’s propaganda, um, views.
Read more...How mainstream economics ignores the lessons from antiquity on the destructiveness of oligachies, and how early industrialists and business schools promoted anti-rentier, socialit policies.
Read more...Interest rates are a poor substitute for fiscal spending and as we’ve seen, over-reliance on monetary policy produces speculative booms and busts. More and more people recognize this formula isn’t working, but what will it take to change course?
Read more...By John Siman, who is also the author of Part 1 and Part 2 in this series John Siman: It seems that unless there’s a Hammurabi-style “divine king” or some elected civic regulatory authority, oligarchies will arise and exploit their societies as much as they can, while trying to prevent the victimized economy from defending […]
Read more...How mixed economies have mixed it up over time.
Read more...Why having public sector development funds “leverage” private capital is a bad idea.
Read more...Michael Hudson describes how, in antiquity in Greece and Rome, emerging oligarchs ended the practice of debt jubilees, impoverishing laborers.
Read more...Another important day for Brexit, when there is way too much to be decided with the stakes so high
Read more...Bill Black highlights how prominent economists apply double standards with respect to MMT.
Read more...At a G20 preparatory meeting, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees. The panelists didn’t mince words.
Read more...More Brexit stumlbing about as the EU sounds alarms.
Read more...The world economy has experienced deglobasation phases before. How this one differs from its predecessors.
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