Finance
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Working Paper Series
A Method for Agent-Based Models Validation
Mar 2016
This paper proposes a new method to empirically validate simulation models that generate artificial time series data comparable with real-world data.
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China’s Coming Debt Crisis?
Mar 22, 2016
The condition of the Chinese economy is increasingly becoming a significant factor exorcising the minds of global policy makers.
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Understanding the Great Recession
Mar 22, 2016
Some fundamental Keynesian and Post-Keynesian insights, with an analysis of possible mechanisms to achieve a sustained recovery.
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New Economic Thinkers Transforming Our World
DiscussionMakers and Takers in the Political Season | A conversation with Rana Foroohar
Mar 20, 2016
The Institute for New Economic Thinking hosts an exclusive luncheon and conversation with Lynn Parramore, Senior Research Analyst at the Institute and Reuters columnist, and Rana Foroohar, TIME Assistant Managing Editor and Economic Columnist, and Global Economic Correspondent at CNN.
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Refugees and The Economy: Lessons from History
Mar 16, 2016
What can we learn from the Vietnamese, Cuban, Rwandan, and Syrian refugees crisis?
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Liquidity Trap & Excessive Leverage
Mar 11, 2016
How excessive debt hurts the economy and why to curb it.
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Different Models, Different Politics
Mar 9, 2016
Gerald Friedman responds to the Romers on the Sanders Plan.
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Confusion Is No Response to Economic Orthodoxy
Feb 22, 2016
Servaas Storm has conviction, yet his analysis throws the baby out with the bathwater.
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What is Missing in Flassbeck & Lapavitsas
Feb 22, 2016
More on substance, coherence, and relevance in the Eurozone debate.
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The China Delusion
Feb 18, 2016
The current bout of exchange rate anxiety is really just a symptom of the fact that China’s transition from an export-led growth strategy to one propelled by domestic consumption is proceeding far less smoothly than hoped.
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Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis
Feb 16, 2016
Exploring the genesis of an important work, one that critiques mainstream neoclassical economics and offers an alternative framework for understanding modern economies.
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The Fundamental Design Flaw of the Eurozone
Feb 9, 2016
From the very start, the European Monetary Union (EMU) was set up to fail.
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Professional Expertise or Politics Driving Economists’ View of Hillary and Bernie?
Feb 9, 2016
Bullet-point financial reform proposals are either too simple or too vague.
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Working Paper Series
Comments on Paul Davidson’s “Full Employment, Open Economy Macroeconomics, and Keynes’ General Theory: Does the Swan Diagram Suffice?”
Feb 2016
This is a response to a critique by Paul Davidson of our 2013 book Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy and related work, where we describe, amongst other things, how the Swan diagram can be used to show how economies can use policy tools to achieve internal and external balance.
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Working Paper Series
Full Employment, Open Economy Macroeconomics, and Keynes’ General Theory: Does the Swan Diagram Suffice?
Feb 2016
This paper provides critical comments on the Peter Temin - David Vines promotion of the basic Swan Diagram as (1) a policy tool to encourage any individual debtor nation experiencing balance of payment deficits to reduce its exchange rate in order to expand exports and reduce imports and (2) the Swan Diagram as a simple model for understanding Keynes’s General Theory for an Open Economy.