Why the Crisis in Italy is Not Over
The structural roots of Italy’s economic problems.
Read more...Category Archives: The dismal science
Lousy Experts: Looking Back at the Ex Ante Estimates of the Costs of Brexit
An economist contends that economists do not bear much responsibility for the Brexit vote.
Read more...Shaky State of North-South Relations
North-South, or developed-emerging economy dealings, are becoming more contentious.
Read more...Financialization and its Discontents
Untangling the credit versus money focus in the critiques of financialization.
Read more...Brexit Realism: Maybe Voters Were Not Dumb
By David Miles, Imperial College Business School. Originally published as a chapter in the VoxEU ebook, Brexit Beckons: Thinking ahead by leading economists, available to download free of charge To some, the Brexit referendum was a failure by economists to persuade UK voters that leaving the EU would entail major economic costs. This column argues […]
Read more...How ‘Competitiveness’ Became One of the Great Unquestioned Virtues of Contemporary Culture
How political authority has legitimated and promoted the questionable goal of competitiveness.
Read more...Do “Unconventional” Monetary Policies Work?
A skeptical look at unconventional monetary policies: quantitative easing, ZIRP, and negative interest rates.
Read more...Back in Work, Still Out of Pocket: Labor Market Recovery Since the Great Recession
The labour market recovery in OECD countries has been steady but slow since the Great Recession. More worrying is the fate of wage growth over the same period. This column assesses the implications of stagnation in the labour market for growth, wages, and inequality. It finds that structural weaknesses in labour market performance have become more visible as markets recover from the Great Recession. The policy response must include macroeconomic policies aimed at strengthening investment, and structural policies to support growth while nudging workers towards higher-skilled jobs.
Read more...Study: Top Bank Execs Saw the Crisis Coming and Sold Their Company’s Shares
So much for the “whcouddanode” theory of the crisis.
Read more...Bullish Economists Are So Yesterday
The confidence fairy is having trouble getting liftoff.
Read more...Michael Hudson: William Goetzmann’s Money Changes Everything – A Travesty of Financial History Which Bank Lobbyists Will Applaud
Why William Goetzmann’s Money Changes Everything is unadulterated Austrian twattle.
Read more...Financial Times Picks Up on Irish Growth Blarney Story…. That We Reported Months Ago
Irish growth is even phonier than the media would have you believe.
Read more...How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
How MBA programs reinforced the inequality-promoting neoliberal economic model.
Read more...The UK Vote to Leave European Union
A judicious, high level overview of the Brexit vote and its implications, the big one being that it moves Britain to the right.
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.
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