How the Economics of Walking About Helps Predict Unemployment, or the Value of Soft Data
On the short-sightedness of over-reliance on hard data.
Read more...On the short-sightedness of over-reliance on hard data.
Read more...Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Bretton Woods economic system.
Read more...Despite the commonly held views of economists on regulatory capture, our profession has been much more hesitant in recognising similar conflicts of interests that may exist in economics research.
Read more...A new angle on why workers lose out as globalization increases.
Read more...Michael Hudson gives another wide-ranging, tour de force interview. Enjoy!
Read more...The opioid crisis provides a deadly example of why innovation often is simply a new-fangled form of predation.
Read more...Covid and other major political challenges show that devising policies isn’t the hard part: it’s getting the public to go along.
Read more...Data privacy worrywarts appear to be the most promiscuous. What gives?
Read more...Citizen science goes unreward by giant monopolists Wikipedia and Google.
Read more...A look at the current acceptance of neoliberal policies.
Read more...Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
Read more...If inflation is linked to higher wages, that’s not bad for workers, says Bob Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst.
Read more...Mega businesses are a huuge problem. But what to do?
Read more...Despite fear-mongering about inflation, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates
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