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American Amnesia?

That’s the title of a book I am looking forward to reading over the summer. It’s by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, and I just read a summary essay they published called: “Making America Great Again – The Case for the Mixed Economy”. Let’s overlook the loaded content of the first part of the essay title, and focus, […]

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Hope 101?

A nice way to end the week: I overheard a conversation between two high school students this morning. The first person was asking about which classes the second was going to take next. One of those mentioned was microeconomics. “Oh, that’s easy” said the first, “You just have to remember that its all rubbish – […]

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101 or Not 101- Uber Knows?

Paul Krugman has this in his blog today: The name is a takeoff on Noah Smith’s clever writing about “101ism”, in which economics writers present Econ 101 stuff about supply, demand, and how great markets are as gospel, ignoring the many ways in which economists have learned to qualify those conclusions in the face of […]

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