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Listen to discussions with Steve Keen and Stephany Griffiths-Jones on whether there should be a Nobel Prize for Economists. Has it been a force for good or bad for society? …
#NotTheNobel Launch Webinar 2 with Steve Keen and Stephan Griffith-Jones Read More
Publisher Description Over the past fifty years, the way we value what is ‘good’ and ‘right’ has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents’ generation might have seemed stupid, harmful …
Jonathan Aldred – Licence to be Bad Read More
Publisher Description Defining markets has never been an easy task. Despite their importance for economic theory and practice, they are hard to pin down as a concept and economists have …
Markets: Perspectives from Economic and Social Theory – William A. Jackson Read More
Nigella Vigoroso-Heck has an idea. It’s really hard to fuck up a lesson on Game Theory. Even the most didactic teacher would find it difficult not to let his students …
How to stop the brain drain Read More
An economic analysis that won the highest of accolades and spawned influential followers has sharpened the threat from climate change, says Steve Keen. One of the provisions of the Nobel …
Nordhaus’s Nobel Prize is safe but the World isn’t Read More
Nat Dyer tells the story of how two Nobel Prize winners almost brought down the world’s financial markets by putting their “rocket science” finance theory into practice. Sounds like a …
The Nobel Bailout Read More
Stephen Ziliak has spent much of his illustrious career in economics examining the significance of significance – that is the statistical test of significance. It turns out how this test …
Significantly speaking Read More
Since the mid-1990s, development economics has witnessed an explosion in the discourse explaining the poor economic performance in developing countries – especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) – by non-policy …
Are some countries destined to remain underdeveloped? Read More
Last year, famed Republican economist Art Laffer co-authored a hagiographic tribute to President Trump and his agenda. Trump habitually bestows his most slavish supporters with pardons or — in the event they …
Trump Awards Kook Art Laffer for Inventing Fake Curve Read More
Millions of people work, live, and travel in high-risk countries; very few are kidnapped and, of those that are, almost all come home safely – how can this be? Anja …
Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business Read More