Joan Robinson: Solutions offered by economists are no less delusory than those of the theologians
BITS & BRIEFS: Labor in the Global Economy // Invention of consumers // Money costs more for poor // Business of travel and immigration // Slavery fueled capitalism
David Ricardo: What is the Key Problem in Political Economy?
What happens when we do not defend academic freedom
BITS & BRIEFS: Policies and perceived job security // Rubinstein, Rodrik and sociology of economics // Keynes’ oddest work // What have we learned after the crisis?
Great academic opportunities: 12 calls for papers, 9 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 2 jobs, and 2 PhD fellowships
How 19th century finance and housing associations shaped 20th century housing regimes in Germany and the United States
Framing Value of Things and Making Things Valuable
BITS & BRIEFS: Globalization Revisited // Vulnerability of finance as economic pathology // Engels rebuts Malthus // Varieties of currency
What is Money?
Great academic opportunities: 7 calls for papers, 6 job openings, 5 summer schools, 2 postdoc and 2 doctoral positions
The Waste of the Progress
BITS & BRIEFS: Distorted antitrust regulations // Separating race from class in US // Prosumer capitalism and McUniversity // Effects of restructured corporations
The Burden of Nations: Debt and Compound Interest
Probably the best “Acknowledgments” ever (2)
Social Classes in Medieval Imperial China
BITS & BRIEFS: Political Economy of Nazism // Post-New Left // Yanis Varoufakis on China // The Making of Digital Kenya
The Pretence of Knowledge
