Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck
People don’t mind inequality due to “brute luck”…but is one man’s brute luck another man’s rigged system?
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Income Inequality in a Globalising World
Absolute inequality around the world has increased, challenging the purported benefit of globalization.
Read more...Backlash Against Trade Deals: The End of U.S.-Led Economic Globalisation?
Why the backlash against the overreach of US trade deals, as embodied by the TPP and TTIP, is well warranted.
Read more...The Private Debt Crisis
Why private debt is so dangerous, and why that risk looms large, particularly in China.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Celebrating the One Percent – Is Inequality Really Good for the Economy?
The backlash has begun. Prominent economists are upping their game in trying to depict the gains of the One Percent as virtuous and beneficial.
Read more...Trade Globalisation in the Last Two Centuries
Trade globalization started earlier than most economists realize, undermining conventional stories about how it came about.
Read more...Thomas Palley: The Fed’s Misguided Approach to Tightening
The Fed touted its “creativity” in bailing out banks during the crisis. That “creativity” is absent in how it is planning to exit its extraordinary policies.
Read more...The Charade That Deters the Use of “Direct Spending” to Fund Federal Operations
Why do so many people recoil at the idea that Federal spending does not depend on taxation?
Read more...Is Fiscal Policy for Prosperity Back in Place of Austerity?
Austerity appears to be quietly going out of fashion.
Read more...Why Behavioral Economics Is Really Marketing Science
Not only do economists ignore the role of banks in their models, they also omit marketing and the malleability of consumer preferences.
Read more...Eurozone Stability Under Threat of a ‘Bad Shock’
Remarkably, an increasing number of economists believe the Eurozone has addressed its weaknesses. Shades of the Great Moderation, circa 2006.
Read more...Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson: Finance is Not the Economy
Picking apart the conflation of real capital with finance capital and explaining how that confusion undermines sound analysis of the crisis.
Read more...Care Work as the Work of the Future
Economists despair about the impact of technology on jobs. They underestimate the need for care work, as in services for the young and aged.
Read more...Top Marginal Tax Rates and Real Economic Growth, Part 1
This post looks at the relationship between the top marginal income tax bracket and growth in real GDP per capita (from NIPA table 7.1) in the subsequent year or years.
Read more...How the Fed Promoted “Financial Dominance” and Shadow Banking by Promoting Repo
Yves here. This is a very important post, and sadly I’m not providing it with the introduction and commentary it warrants because I am scrambling to get organized to get out of town. By Daniela Gabor is associate professor in economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Originally published at the Institute […]
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