The Debt Delusion
A short take on John Week’s new book, The Debt Delusion, and why it matters.
Read more...A short take on John Week’s new book, The Debt Delusion, and why it matters.
Read more...Claims that a financial transaction tax would be difficult to implement and raise little revenue are fake news.
Read more...How economists have contributed to climate change inaction.
Read more...How the Fed’s fingerprints are all over the repo mess.
Read more...Neoliberal economics rests on a retrograde vision of society.
Read more...Why most economists considerably underestimate the cost of climate change.
Read more...War II lessons from Mançur Olson and how they apply now.
Read more...Why Democrats are the party of fiscal orthodoxy.
Read more...Neutrality in World War II meant appeasing the belligerents.
Read more...Illustrating some ways that so-called economic studies in the political sphere are cooked to sell a point of view.
Read more...A short-form debunking of a popular but unsound idea for addressing carbon emissions.
Read more...A surprising alliance of big business, activists and left-wing politicians have condemned the shareholder value paradigm. But did it ever really exist?
Read more...How free market fundamentalism has undermined industrial policy and other pro-worker measures.
Read more...Trying to predict the financial future is a fool’s errand, even for a genius.
Read more...A long-form discussion of the randomised approach celebrated in this year’s “Nobel” for economics.
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