Macroeconomics
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Setting the Stage for the Next Financial Crisis
Mar 6, 2015
Michael Greenberger discusses the current state of play of regulatory reform and gives a barely passing grade.
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Can Democracy Survive Aggressive Global Capitalism?
Mar 6, 2015
Rana Dasgupta shares his view of the contradictions and tensions of India’s economic and political scenes.
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Working paper
Networks in the Laboratory
Feb 2015
This chapter surveys experimental research on networks in economics.
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Conference paper
Should heterodox economics be taught in economics departments, or is there any room for backwater economics?
Feb 2015
It is highly fitting to have a panel devoted to ‘teaching economics’ in Paris. No less than 15 years ago, in 2000, in downtown Paris, a group of students from the École Normale Supérieure, one of France’s élite schools, wrote a petition asking economics teaching to be devoted to the study of real-world problems, with an instrumental use of mathematics rather than to the description of imaginary worlds based on meaningless formalizations.
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What does Yanis Varoufakis want?
Feb 26, 2015
With the approval of the reform proposals by the Greek government, the Eurozone has returned to calmer waters. But it is only a brief interlude.
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Finding Till Düppe
Feb 19, 2015
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History of Policy Evaluation: A Few Questions
Feb 4, 2015
I need a history of policy evaluation.
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The Brace is On
Feb 3, 2015
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Forging Fresh Tools from the Past
Feb 1, 2015
John Smithin argues that we need to rethink the “consensus” with tools old and new.
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Greece Shows the Limits of Austerity in the Eurozone. What Now?
Jan 9, 2015
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Much Ado About Cyber Security
Jan 5, 2015
Private data is leaked more and more in our society. Wikileaks, Facebook, and identity theft are just three examples. Network defenses are constantly under attack from cyber criminals, organized hacktivists, and even disgruntled ex-employees.
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Demystifying Modern Monetary Theory
Dec 27, 2014
Bill Mitchell presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest.
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Identifying Weaknesses in the Eurozone
Dec 19, 2014
How should the Eurozone handle unemployment and other immediate hurdles?
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New Theoretical Perspectives on the Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals
Dec 17, 2014
The recently observed surge in wealth doesn’t equate to growth of productive capital. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Branko Milanovic, Paul Krugman and Duncan Foley discuss these issues and more.
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How Superstar Companies Like Apple Are Killing America’s High-Tech Future
Dec 8, 2014
Few would argue that America’s fortunes rise and fall on its ability to generate technological innovations — to put bold ideas to work and then bring them to market.