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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. The depression also spelled crisis for an economic orthodoxy unable either to explain events or prescribe remedies. The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revoluti...
but rather to immerse myself in radical theories of economic development. In college, I was often ad...
[Extract]\ud When the world recession in 2008 began, the economy wars, which had been dormant for tw...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
“I conclude with an unworthy hypothesis regarding past and present directions of economic research. ...
about what that book would have looked like in sequential decades of the last century had Richard Sc...
In the early 1930’s the world saw the most widespread and devastating depression in history. Poverty...
Beginning with Irving Fisher (1933) and John Maynard Keynes (1931 B [1963]), macroeconomists have ar...
Few economists in the post-war period have made such a lasting impression on macroeconomic policy as...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
While the recent literature has shown an increasing interest in Keynes’s investment activity, specif...
Following the Great Depression in 1929-1934, John Maynard Keynes came up with a new macroeconomic sy...
While the recent literature has shown an increasing interest in Keynes’s investment activity, speci...
There cannot be many economists whose very first published work achieved the fame and influence of F...
E conomists like to strike the pose of a scientist. I know, because I often doit myself. When I teac...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
but rather to immerse myself in radical theories of economic development. In college, I was often ad...
[Extract]\ud When the world recession in 2008 began, the economy wars, which had been dormant for tw...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
“I conclude with an unworthy hypothesis regarding past and present directions of economic research. ...
about what that book would have looked like in sequential decades of the last century had Richard Sc...
In the early 1930’s the world saw the most widespread and devastating depression in history. Poverty...
Beginning with Irving Fisher (1933) and John Maynard Keynes (1931 B [1963]), macroeconomists have ar...
Few economists in the post-war period have made such a lasting impression on macroeconomic policy as...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
While the recent literature has shown an increasing interest in Keynes’s investment activity, specif...
Following the Great Depression in 1929-1934, John Maynard Keynes came up with a new macroeconomic sy...
While the recent literature has shown an increasing interest in Keynes’s investment activity, speci...
There cannot be many economists whose very first published work achieved the fame and influence of F...
E conomists like to strike the pose of a scientist. I know, because I often doit myself. When I teac...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
but rather to immerse myself in radical theories of economic development. In college, I was often ad...
[Extract]\ud When the world recession in 2008 began, the economy wars, which had been dormant for tw...
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulde...
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