To defend deficits, Furman and Summers relied on debunked theories, thus preserving destructive mainstream economic ideas.
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Read more...Western modernity and capitalism may be exhausting themselves, says author Eugene McCarraher. And that’s something to be thankful for.
Read more...The altered constraints on whom we spend time with imposed by the Covid-19 crisis might have affected human happiness.
Read more...Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?
Read more...Later “Nobel” prize winner James Buchanan took his first policy stance by supporting segregation in Virginia via proto charter schools.
Read more...As material output increased, so to has the interest in treating poverty as a potentially solvable problem.
Read more...Looking at the damage Milton Friedman did by advocating corporate irresponsibility, which more and more orthodox economists have questioned.
Read more...Debunking some of Milton Friedman’s destructive ideas, such shareholders, who only have residual claims in a company, ought to come first.
Read more...Some econmists have criticized industrial policy as zombie-crearting “macroeconomic populism.” Evidence indicates otherwise.
Read more...Unemployment claims continue to increase, with nearly 20% collecting unemployment insurance. even according to the stringent claims criteria.
Read more...Lance Taylor explains that wage repression — far more than monopoly power, offshoring or technological change — is driving rising inequality.
Read more...Tracing key influences on Karl Polanyi as welll as some of his important initiatives after The Great Transformation.
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