How European Union Fiscal Rules Subverted Democracy and Institutionalized Neoliberalism
A good overview of how fiscal rules gave neoliberal ideology and unaccountable bureaucrats the upper hand in the EU.
Read more...A good overview of how fiscal rules gave neoliberal ideology and unaccountable bureaucrats the upper hand in the EU.
Read more...Adam Davidson makes numerous misrepresentations about economics in a salvo against Bernie Sanders’ economic plans. Does he really not know better, or has he really drunk the orthodox Kool-Aid?
Read more...Struggles over shadow money today echo 19th century struggles over bank deposits.
Read more...A case study illustrating how soi-disant liberal economists pushed the US to the right during the Clinton Administration.
Read more...The Financial Times’ lead economics writer, Martin Wolf, makes an intellectually bogus case for negative interest policies.
Read more...Yves here. I’m leery of reinforcing the “competitiveness” meme, since it’s based on the false premise that all countries can be exporters. But this article nevertheless makes important observations about Eurozone structural flaws.
Read more...Krugman is increasingly discrediting himself as a commentator on economics.
Read more...How official statistics exaggerate Ireland’s performance, largely due to its status as a tax haven/offshore financial center.
Read more...Why exhorting poor people to marry more often is right wing propaganda in lieu of real policies to address poverty.
Read more...On how economic growth models constrain policy debates and choices among Eurocrats, and why that is no accident.
Read more...Explanations of the oil price decline are starting to acknowledge deflationary factors, even though the “d” word seems to be outside the pale .
Read more...Why 2017 could be an event horizon as far as climate change is concerned.
Read more...Why the shift in economic power from advanced to developing economies has not gone as far as most accounts would have you believe.
Read more...By linking immigration and trade, however crudely, Trump has exposed the broader paradox and inherent contradictions which lurk between the two.
Read more...A well-meaning effort to analyze rent-seeking goes off the rails.
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