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Economics / Bernie Sanders, capitalism, democracy, economic theory, James Meade, plutocracy /

Practical Economics is Radical?

June 16, 2016

I have a book by James Meade published in 1975. It’s called “The Intelligent Radical’s Guide to Economic Policy”. Thumbing through it reveals how some things never change and yet, also, how the neoliberal suffocation of economic thinking and policy has allowed us to drift from a socially just economy. He ends his first paragraph thus: […]

Economics / economic theory, Thomas Sargent /

Laughingstock or Fog?

June 14, 2016

Let’s have some fun: Economics deserves to be a laughingstock. Really, it does. No one can take it seriously. I have tried. The effort isn’t worth it. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t a ton of interesting things littered throughout the odd landscape of economics, it’s just that most of them are not particularly unique to […]

Economics / Deirdre McCloskey, economic theory, Elhanan Helpman, growth, Richard Heinberg, Robert Gordon /

Gordon, McCloskey and Growing Pains

May 31, 2016

I try to take my own advice: when you have nothing to say, don’t say anything. Thus, for the best part of a month I have busied myself doing other things and staying away from here. It’s been a nice break, and here I am still convinced that there’s not much to say. The economy […]

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