122 Results for “ADAM SMITH”
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How to Kill Financial Regulation…and the Global Economy
May 14, 2012
“While it’s incredibly difficult to get a regulatory reform passed, it’s far easier – and more profitable to politicians – to kill it.
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Why Economics Curriculum Needs Historical Context?
Jun 24, 2014
Can Economists Be Adequate Without Studying History?
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Capitalism’s Great Reckoning
Jun 24, 2019
As the maladies of modern capitalism have multiplied, fundamental questions about the future of the world’s dominant economic model have become impossible to ignore. But in the absence of viable alternatives, the question is how to reform a system that is increasingly at odds with democracy.
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We Are Greg Mankiw… or Not?
Nov 19, 2011
Amid mass unemployment and economic turmoil, instructors who lecture on the superiority of free markets without acknowledging the dysfunction in the wider economy are at risk of appearing out of touch and exacerbating antipathy towards economics.
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Ben Bernanke to Economists: More Philosophy, Please
Aug 6, 2012
This week Bernanke spoke to the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, and, as Bloomberg Businessweek notes, he was singing a different tune.
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We Need to Talk About the Original Sin of Economics
Feb 15, 2023
How a bleak Christian theology influenced the development of the dismal science
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Research Program News
Inequality Is Biggest Danger for Global Growth, Warn Top Economists (Bloomberg News)
Oct 24, 2017
This article originally appeared on Bloomberg
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The economist as an expert: a prince, a servant or a citizen?
Feb 8, 2017
In his contribution to our ongoing series “Experts on Trial”, Alessandro Roncaglia argues that viewing economists as princes or servants of power is inherently authoritarian. We should instead see the economist as a socially and politically engaged citizen
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Saving Economics from the Economists - A Tribute to the Late Ronald Coase
Sep 2, 2013
The degree to which economics is isolated from the ordinary business of life is extraordinary and unfortunate.
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Why Don't Economists Go to Hollywood Parties?
Feb 15, 2015
Do economists live in a world of their own?
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Leakage as historiographic genre @ HES 2012
Jul 26, 2012
If the meetings of European historians of economics are urbane and cosmopolitan, the meetings of American historians are, by contrast, frank and toilful.
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What Does Capitalism Repress? A Jungian Perspective.
Jun 17, 2022
Billions living in insecurity and injustice is hardly a rational system.
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Enlightenment Then, Enlightenment Now
Oct 20, 2017
What can today’s economists learn from the 18th century Scottish thinkers who grappled with societal and economic change?
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Fable of the Squirrels: New Research on Wealth Inequality Among Animals Sparks Debate on Human Economies
Jan 18, 2022
Researchers studying beasts that pass on resources and advantages to offspring have raised the old question of whether humans are destined to live in stratified conditions. Your view may depend on your relative position.
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Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy: A Comment
Dec 7, 2020
A response to Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers