Questioning Innovation
Why innovation isn’t necessarily a good thing.
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The Debt Delusion
A short take on John Week’s new book, The Debt Delusion, and why it matters.
Read more...Why the UK Needs a Financial Transaction Tax
Claims that a financial transaction tax would be difficult to implement and raise little revenue are fake news.
Read more...Neoliberalism and Climate Change
How economists have contributed to climate change inaction.
Read more...Repo Madness: Fed Plumbing Gone Awry
How the Fed’s fingerprints are all over the repo mess.
Read more...How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined
Neoliberal economics rests on a retrograde vision of society.
Read more...New Report Finds Costs of Climate Change Impacts Often Underestimated
Why most economists considerably underestimate the cost of climate change.
Read more...Economic Warfare: Insights from Mançur Olson
War II lessons from Mançur Olson and how they apply now.
Read more...The Political Colour of Fiscal Responsibility: Trump’s Fiscal Policy as a Republican Tradition
Why Democrats are the party of fiscal orthodoxy.
Read more...The Economics of Neutrality in World War II
Neutrality in World War II meant appeasing the belligerents.
Read more...How Misleading Economic Analysis Is Corrupting Our Democracy
Illustrating some ways that so-called economic studies in the political sphere are cooked to sell a point of view.
Read more...Carbon Taxes and Carbon Pricing Are Not Solutions to the Climate Crisis
A short-form debunking of a popular but unsound idea for addressing carbon emissions.
Read more...The Myth of Shareholder Primacy
A surprising alliance of big business, activists and left-wing politicians have condemned the shareholder value paradigm. But did it ever really exist?
Read more...America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as “The Free Market” Dominates the Economic Debate
How free market fundamentalism has undermined industrial policy and other pro-worker measures.
Read more...Why Did Isaac Newton Lose His Shirt in Financial Speculation? Author Alex Pollock Explains.
Trying to predict the financial future is a fool’s errand, even for a genius.
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