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Economics / economic theory, Friedman, Hayek /

The Naivety of Economics

January 2, 2017

Economics plays a large part in the determination of policy and thus has an impact on our lives way disproportionate to its accomplishments. Because we are about to enter a period of great uncertainty that many of you express deep concern over, and because economic policy looms large within that concern, some of you ask […]

Commentary, Economics, Politics / capitalism, democracy, gig-economy, jobs, plutocracy, Trump /

A New Year — Happy or Not

January 1, 2017

I am not going to become involved in endless analysis of Trump’s presidency. I think we ought let it speak for itself. Nor am I going to waste space critiquing the huge contribution that academic economics has made to Trump’s rise to power. I think the anti-democratic nature of mainstream economics is both palpable and […]

Politics / capitalism, democracy, democratic party, Hillary Clinton, plutocracy, Trump /

Why Trump Won?

December 7, 2016

I listened last night to Matt Dickinson from Middlebury college give a talk about the recent election. This is my synopsis: The election did not represent much of a change in voter patterns. Trump’s victory was based more on a tweak rather than a reconstruction of the voting patterns of the 2012 election. So this […]

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