My Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Don’t Be an Economist
There is a new world that is fast-overtaking us, and it needs to be seen and explained on its own terms.
Read more...There is a new world that is fast-overtaking us, and it needs to be seen and explained on its own terms.
Read more...Why bad conduct is more prevalent in societies with high inequality.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Only now that EU and US officials are up in arms about monopolies are macroeconomics pros taking it seriously.
Read more...The economy is likely to be crippled for months and fiscal rescue on a large scale, once again, is very much necessary.
Read more...Eulogy for Edward Lazear, a “consummate economist.”
Read more...How ancient colonizers left an enduring economic footprint, even at the local level.
Read more...Harvard’s Greg Mankiw is taken to task by Serious Economist Peter Bofinger for some major howlers in Mankiw’s textbooks.
Read more...A perhaps too-upbeat take on the possibilty of big changes in the economics profession.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses the chokehold of pro-finance, pro-rentier capitalism reaching into the present COVID-19 crisis.
Read more...Larry Summers is at it again.
Read more...Fiscal multipliers, an economic concept often misused to justify austerity, is rearing its head in Beltway budget debates. Time to bone up.
Read more...Why for some sectors of the economy, life after Covid may never be the same.
Read more...Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Read more...Money, lending, government spending, QE….all explained in one tidy post!
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