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Business Schools and Inequailty

September 13, 2013

You may not be aware of the article that has created quite a storm on the New York Times website. It is about inequality at Harvard Business School and the insidious consequences of the emergence of a “class” system there. Don’t laugh. If HBS is now afflicted by class issues and the social disaster of […]

Commentary, Economics /

A Response to Robert Locke

September 12, 2013

Robert: I read with interest your comments. I agree in many ways, and with JC Spender’s follow-up. Economics is intensely introspective. It exists within its own world, and were that all no one would care much about its oddities. But that is not the case. Economics plays a crucial role in shaping our lives via […]

Economics / austerity, business investment, consumption, demand, economic policy, economic theory, government spending, growth, monetary policy, Obama, plutocracy, Republicans /

Five Years Already

September 11, 2013

Amazing. It’s roughly five years since the economy tanked, since Lehmann folded, and since we began to discuss the worth or otherwise of bailouts. Five long years. Five fairly rotten years. In that time we have been stuck in more ways than one. First: economic policy has been somewhere between pathetic and horrible. The Obama […]