
Month: April 2015


Why and when do governments appoint economists and economics-trained politicians?

Don’t mess with political scientists! Not to mention political economists!! ;-)

Free trade politics, the power of ideas and political economy of European integration

Paul Volcker: “The economics profession is in trouble… We need to pull economics back into the real world of Political Economy.”

Unemployment kills: 1 in 5 suicides is associated with unemployment

Herbert Marcuse: Power of Repressive Tolerance

Community Capitalism in China: the State, the Market, and Collectivism

Name and shame: Warwick University to outsource academics to a subsidiary

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
