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Diversity in Economics

In this case geographical diversity. Dani Rodrik has brought to our attention a rather serious problem within the economics profession: it is still dominated by people living and working in the West.  As a consequence it has a decided bias towards issues that are of significant interest to the West. This is, of course, not news […]

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Economics as Myth Making

Well that was an interesting summer.  At least I managed to reduce my pile of unread books slightly.  Only one or two to go.  And now it’s back to … what exactly?  So little seems to change.  There are just so many times I can read sentences beginning with “Neoclassical theory does not explain …”. […]

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Technology: Being and Belief

Untethered from questions of inflation, infrastructure spending, and cryptocurrencies, all of which have been occupying my time in recent weeks, permit me time to speculate on something a little more provocative [this remains a work in progress]: E. O. Wilson was here before us when he said: “We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone […]

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