Start-Up Governments, or Can Bureaucracies Innovate?
What makes bureaucracies innovative?
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Social Engagement and Cooperative Behaviour: Experimental Evidence
Are you more likely to get a job if you’re seen to be intensively social?
Read more...Job Guarantee Versus Basic Income Guarantee
A lively and well-informed debate on the merits of a job guarantee versus a basic income guarantee.
Read more...Economics Joke Time
An economics joke open thread. Of course, economists might have the presence of mind to retort that economics is too important to be taken seriously.
Read more...Matthew Cunningham-Cook: Five Reasons Tariffs Are Great
Saying tariffs could be a good thing is close to a taboo in economics. Is that distaste justified?
Read more...Debunking the Magnitude of Markets: A Holiday Story
Why markets, the god of neoliberalism, are not what they are cracked up to be.
Read more...The Sneaky Way Austerity Got Sold to the Public Like Snake Oil
How a budget approach cloaked in the aura of science and technical jargon became a tool for promoting austerity.
Read more...Randy Wray: Debt-Free Money and Banana Republics, Part II
More discussion of the problems with the “debt-free money” construct, to the extent that it can even be called a construct.
Read more...Capitalism – Not China – Is to Blame for the Current Global Economic Decline
Capitalism’s “recovery” now proceeds like another speeding train headed toward contradiction and catastrophe.
Read more...The Scientific Limits of Understanding Complex Social Phenomena
Economists, for the most part, resist the idea that economics can never be a scientific enterprise. Sadly, that posture has proven profitable for them.
Read more...The Puzzle of Technical Dis-Employment and Productivity Slowdown
How can recent technical change could both be a major source of dis-employment and not be associated with productivity improvement?
Read more...The Importance of Wealth Concentration and Why It is So Difficult to Measure
As bad as available data says wealth concentration is, it is probably even worse.
Read more...Bond, Treasury Bond: 007 is Out of Cash, but Your Government Can’t Be
So now even austerity is getting product placement in movies….
Read more...Connecting American Foreign Policy to Economic Policy
Can American foreign policy be made to work better for US citizens (outside the arms industry) and the rest of the world?
Read more...Present Day Benefits of Climate Policy
Poor framing of climate change and climate policy issues are making costs appear much higher than they are and are thus deterring action.
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