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Tuesday, 19 January 2016

The political right’s dangerous support for economic quackery

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You may remember Niall Ferguson’s disastrous attempt to claim that George Osborne’s imagined success proved Keynesians and Keynes were wro...
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Sunday, 17 January 2016

Economics Rules by Dani Rodrik

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I didn’t want to talk about this book before I had finished it: I somehow think Noah’s contrary approach has its shortcomings! The fir...
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Friday, 15 January 2016

Heterodox economists and mainstream eclecticism

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I knew when I wrote this post some economists would not like it. These are economists who locate themselves outside the mainstream: heterod...
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Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Is mainstream academic macroeconomics eclectic?

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For economists, and those interested in macroeconomics as a discipline Eric Lonergan has a short little post that is well worth readin...
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Monday, 11 January 2016

Personal debt

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A simple point, not very deep or constructive This earlier post , which has been followed by pieces in the financial press saying si...
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Friday, 8 January 2016

Will Trident be Corbyn’s undoing?

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and why Trident is not like austerity Not being a Labour Party person, I’ve not until now thought much about what Corbyn should do a...
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Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Confidence as a political device

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Some technical references but the key point does not need them This is a contribution to the discussion about models started by Krug...
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Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. This blog is written for both economists and non-economists, and covers macroeconomics but also other economic issues, political economy, the media and politics.
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