Archive
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The Stormy Birth of “Europe”
Nov 7, 2019
National States and Conflicting Economic Priorities in the Making of the European Monetary System
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Why Did Isaac Newton Lose His Shirt in Financial Speculation? Author Alex Pollock Explains.
Nov 4, 2019
Trying to predict the financial future is a fool’s errand, even for a genius
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Not So Modern Monetary Theory
Oct 31, 2019
Policy hype but vintage fiscal economics from Godley, Lerner, and Keynes
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Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition
Oct 21, 2019
Big Tech companies are swallowing up nascent competitors. Why aren’t regulators paying attention?
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This Take on Humanity’s Future Might Blow Your Mindset
Oct 17, 2019
Author Jeremy Lent argues that western conceptual frameworks with roots in the Stone Age push us towards disaster. Time to let them go?
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How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers
Oct 3, 2019
New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics
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Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom
Oct 1, 2019
Summers and Stansbury mark a dramatic shift from New Keynesian orthodoxy, but only make it halfway to understanding the demand-driven nature of stagnant growth
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Kalecki, Minsky, and “Old Keynesianism” Vs. “New Keynesianism” on the Effect of Monetary Policy
Sep 11, 2019
Mott walks us through answers many careful readers of Kalecki, Keynes, Steindl, and Minsky knew all along.
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Global Commission Brainstorms on Africa’s Economic Transformation Ahead of WEF Africa
Sep 9, 2019
An update from the meeting of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) in Cape Town
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Is it Really "Full Employment"? Margins for Expansion in the US Economy in the Middle of 2019
Sep 6, 2019
Many indicators say the US is close to full employment: Hours of work tell a different story.
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Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing
Sep 4, 2019
How Investor-owned Physician Practices Are Driving up Healthcare Costs
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Central Banks, Secular Stagnation, and Loanable Funds
Sep 3, 2019
A Comment on Summers and Stansbury
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Summers and the Road to Damascus
Sep 3, 2019
Why Pushing on a String Has Never Worked
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Central Bankers, Inflation, and the Next Recession
Sep 3, 2019
Summers and Stansbury Get It Half Right
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Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes?
Aug 30, 2019
An except from Galbraith’s review of Paul Davidson’s Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality