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Crying Wolf

I must admit that I find it difficult to take the current stand off between the White House and Congress over immigration too seriously. Unfortunately we are all too accustomed to the lunacy of watching as the far right dictates to its erstwhile more centrist brethren, and then has to capitulate at the last moment […]

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To See Is To Believe?

The French Republican thinker Charles Péguy once said: “One must always say what one sees. But especially — and this is the hard part — one must always see what one sees.” Very true. The ability to see something and not see it simultaneously seems to be a major characteristic of orthodox economists. Thus involuntary […]

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Questions – Add Your Voice

There’s been a lot of excitement about changing the substance of economics and the way it is taught. Rightly so. But that, it seems to me, just begs the question: “What is economics?” Or, rather, it begs a series of questions. None of us can pretend to have the answer since the answer is surely […]

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