Philip Pilkington: To What Extent Is Economics an Ideology and to What Extent Is It a Useful Theory?
Why economics is more like phrenology than physics.
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Hospitalized Patients Treated by Female Doctors Show Lower Mortality
A JAMA article, based on a large, well-designed study, found that female doctors in hospitals saved more lives than men. The question is why
Read more...How What We Eat Has Changed
Quelle surprise! Americans eat too much!
Read more...The Econocracy: An Interview with Cahal Mora
The new book Econocracy describes how economics training discourages critical thinking, overreaches, overpromises, and underdelivers.
Read more...Macroeconomics in the Crossfire (Again)
Economists are finally ‘fessing up to the fact that macroeconomics was never all that good and has regressed in recent decades.
Read more...Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’
Why Trumpism caused mainstream ‘social science’ to fall like a house of cards.
Read more...Suspected 5th Columnist Streetwise Professor Knocks Blockchain… But Defends Elites
Why are self-styled progressive economists like the Streetwise Professor criticising Blockchain boosters but making excuses for our elites?
Read more...The Return of the Repressed Critique of Rentiers – Veblen in the 21st Century
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Read more...Not So Wondrous Drugs? – New Warnings about Severe Adverse Effects of New, Heavily Marketed Drugs for Hepatitis C
Dangerous diseases like hepatitis C make it a bit too easy for drugmakers to peddle wonder cures….
Read more...Gluttony and Sloth
Sloth, as in lower levels of physical activity, are a much bigger contributor to population-wide gains in weight levels than caloric intake.
Read more...The Cambridge Capital Controversy, or Why Microeconomics is All Wet
Why the Cambridge capital controversy is important yet almost never acknowledged: it’s too damaging to too many pet theories.
Read more...Corruption of FDA Clinical Trials Reports: The Problem and a Proposed Remedy
Big Pharma lies via medical publications, and the FDA shuts its eyes to this ruse in clinical trials. Time to put it to a stop.
Read more...Transparency International Reports on Massive Corruption in the Pharmaceutical Sector – Media Hardly Notices
Health care corruption is pervasive, yet remains a taboo topic.
Read more...Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin: Corporate Fraud With a Body Count
Yves here. Some of the facts in this article are stunning. For instance, more Americans die from opoid overdose than from car accidents. And this article gives only a partial tally of Purdue Pharma’s predatory conduct. The drugmaker targeted overly-busy, not very well trained general practitioners in communities which were likely to have high incidence […]
Read more...Bill Black: Greg Mankiw’s Unprincipled Economics Indoctrination
Exposing Greg Mankiw’s basic economics textbook as an exercise in dogma.
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