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  1. Article

    We Must Lean Over Backwards

    By John Komlos

    Apr 14, 2015

    Emulate Richard Feynman: Lean over backwards so you do not fool yourself, and teach your students the discipline correctly from the start, rather than teaching them things at the start you will have to unteach them later.

  2. Article

    Party Competition to Cut the Government Deficit by More in the UK's General Election

    By Robert Skidelsky

    Apr 14, 2015

    At least the Labour Party has only promised to cut day-to-day spending, not public investment.

  3. Video

    Upholding the Rule of Law

    Featuring Sol Wisenberg

    Apr 13, 2015

    Here we are, some 7 years after the Great Financial Crisis, and not one senior banking executive has gone to jail.

  4. Article

    New Economic Thinking vs. Hard Political Realities

    By Kevin Gallagher

    Apr 13, 2015

  5. Article

    False Economic Policy Clichés and General Elections

    By Robert Skidelsky

    Apr 13, 2015

  6. Article

    Is the Fed Making Inequality Worse? Yes, New Research Shows.

    By Lynn Parramore

    Apr 11, 2015

  7. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    A New Rational Expectations Hypothesis: What Can Economists Really Know About the Future?

    By Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg

    Apr 2015

    John Muth proposed the Rational Expectations Hypothesis (REH) to represent how the market (an aggregate of its participants) understands and forecasts outcomes. REH imposes internal consistency between the market’s forecasts and “the relevant economic theory” (Muth 1961, p. 316).

  8. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    Change of Course: a Journalist’s Perspective

    Apr 2015

    I first came across economics students’ campaigns to revolutionise their education in that bastion of radical thought: the newsroom of the Financial Times.

  9. Conference Session

    George Soros on the Future of Europe

    Featuring George Soros

    Apr 10, 2015 | 03:30

  10. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    From Terrible to Terrific Undergraduate Economics Curricula

    By Laurene Tran and Louison Cahen-Fourot

    Apr 2015

    Among the areas left largely unscathed by the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent never-­‐ending recession, the teaching of economics ranks high.

  11. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    The Eurozone crisis: A debt shortage as the final cause

    By Andrea Terzi

    Apr 2015

    This paper proposes a different interpretation of the Eurozone crisis, seeing as its “final” cause European policies which have forced private savings down too low.

  12. Working Paper

    Conference paper

    What's Wrong With Economics?

    By Robert Skidelsky

    Apr 2015

    Hubris might well head the list

  13. Conference Session

    The Eurozone Crisis: Fiscal Profligacy Or Capital Flows As Final Causes

    Featuring Domenico Lombardi, Hans-Werner Sinn, Servaas Storm, and Andrea Terzi

    Apr 10, 2015 | 06:30—08:00

  14. Conference Session

    Ukraine & The Future of Europe

    Featuring Erik Berglöf, Chris Canavan, and Thomas Ferguson

    Apr 10, 2015 | 08:00—08:30

  15. Conference Session

    Durable Inequality and Individual Differences in Capacities and Behavior

    Featuring Samuel Bowles, James Heckman, and Robert J. Sampson

    Apr 10, 2015 | 06:15—07:45