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Economics / Brian Arthur, Deirdre McCloskey, economic theory, free markets, market magic /

Economics as Storytelling: McCloskey Again

August 19, 2015

This is not new to most of you of course. You are already steeped in McCloskey’s Rhetoric. Or you ought to be. After all economists are simply telling stories about the economy. Sometimes we are taken in. Sometimes we are not. Unfortunately McCloskey herself gets a little too caught up in her stories. As in her […]

Administration /

R.I.P. Christine Radford

August 10, 2015

My mother, Christine Radford, died yesterday aged 91. A tough, tough lady who outlived my father by almost 40 years. Old age finally ended her run. May we all have such a life.

Economics / austerity, recovery, Spain /

Spanish Triumph?

August 10, 2015

It’s all a bit annoying. Really. I have just read the Economist’s article about Spain. The article is titled “Back on its feet”. Such a title might lead you to imagine that the article is about a triumphant return to prosperity. But no. Instead we are told that unemployment is down to 22.5%. This is […]

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