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Further system reforms will enable China to overcome middle-income trap and push forward social progress

Economists and historians of economics have related differently over time, and the past of the discipline has then served for varied purposes.

Eric Beinhocker and Tony Dolphin argue that lasting reform to the financial sector will not be achieved without tackling the price rigging and anti-competitive behaviour that is rife in the industry.

So, my new students’ training is essentially about understanding urban “territories” and “societies” through fieldwork. And my contribution is, supposedly, to highlight the economic dimension of all this.

When they told me I was expected to teach “Introduction à l’économie” this year, I thought, OK, this is straight. Every economist knows how to do that.

Everyone wants to ring-fence something, but they can’t agree on what:

In this initial blog post we wish to situate microeconomics as a field of social enquiry.

I thought I was on to an inside reference when re-reading the General Theory when Keynes calls Marx, Edgeworth and others simply by name, but refers to “Professor Pigou” in several instances.

Mid August, with the Olympics over, Paralympics and Premiership starting (that’s Soccer for the American readership), it is well and truly the quiet period for most of academia.

Has the servant’s servant become the master’s master?