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Gavin Kennedy: "On these issues I agree with Keynes"
Found on The New Arthurian Economics on Mon 20th May 13
Recommended reading. From Keynes on Laissez-Faire at Adam Smith's Lost Legacy:Keynes, rightly, points out that Adam Smith never used the words laissez-faire. And on the single occasion where he used the IH metaphor in Wealth Of Nations, it is a travesty to
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Helicopter money as a policy option
Found on VoxEU.org: Recent Articles on Mon 20th May 13
Lucrezia Reichlin, Adair Turner, Michael Woodford, 20 May 2013With persistently weak economic conditions becoming the norm in Europe, economists are considering increasingly unconventional policy options. One tool that has yet to be taken out of storage is
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A Reversion to a Dickensian Variety of Capitalism
Found on naked capitalism on Mon 20th May 13
By Jayati Ghosh, Professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and the executive secretary of International Development Economics Associates. Cross-posted from Triple Crisis.Since her death, many eulogies of Thatcher have spoken of her as
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Department of "WTF?!?!": Education Gap Weblogging
Found on Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, and Reality-Based Semi-Daily Journal on Sun 19th May 13
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?For at least half a generation, liberals--at least liberals that I know--have been hammering on the fact that the stepping-away from the commitment to universal free or nearly-free education has been a long-run
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Systemic Malfunctioning of the Labor and Financial Markets
Found on naked capitalism on Sun 19th May 13
Paul Jay of the Real News Network interviews Heiner Flassbeck, who served as director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, known as UNCTAD. He was a vice minister at the Federal
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Comment on Unconventional Monetary Policies by Links for 05-19-2013 | The Penn Ave Post
Found on Comments for The Irish Economy on Sun 19th May 13
[...] Old-fashioned Austerity – Paul Krugman The 1 Percent Are Only Half the Problem – NYT Unconventional Monetary Policies – The Irish Economy [...]
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