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    Alienation Nation

    January 8, 2014

    And another thing … It occurs to me that one reason the western world is awash with right wing populist politics at the moment is the total alienation of the average voter from the techno-bureaucracy that runs our economies. After all that technical mumbo-jumbo hasn’t done much to improve things, and has, arguably, made things […]

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    American Business Schools

    January 8, 2014

    Not to beat a dead horse, but … Following up on my snark concerning the obsession economists have with America, allow me to be equally skeptical about our business schools. It think it reasonable to ask what value they add. I mean in the aggregate. Think, for instance, about the flood of newly minted MBA’s […]

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    American Economics

    January 8, 2014

    I just came across – via the Economist – an interesting study. Apparently economists are obsessed with America and write precious little about the rest of the world. The study was published in the Journal of Development Economics back in November last year. It sits behind a confounded paywall, but you might be able to […]

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