Tag: economics
Unethical behavior of economists
Believe it or not — the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences committee’s reasoning for awarding Milton Friedman. You better believe it! He believed…
Get free from the dogmas of the apostles of austerity: Fifteen Fatal Fallacies of Financial Fundamentalism
United for understanding the economy: Heterodox Economics, Economic Sociology and Political Economy
Camels, mathematics and the history of economics
Economic culture in the public sphere: practice, knowledge and discourse
Robert Heilbroner: “The prestige accorded to mathematics in economics has given it rigor, but, alas, also mortis”
Why and when do governments appoint economists and economics-trained politicians?
Paul Volcker: “The economics profession is in trouble… We need to pull economics back into the real world of Political Economy.”
Gregory Mankiw: “Economic science is still a primitive body of knowledge.”
Ben Bernanke on economics and economic forecasting
Who is an economist? Here is Keynes’ answer
Joan Robinson: Economics has always been partly a vehicle for the ruling ideology
Financial economics, or “Would you please elaborate on ‘then something bad happened’?”
Simplistic Economics, or when real people ruin perfect economic models
Economists are self-confident and regularly wrong, admits Columbia economics professor
What is money? Can we grasp the current state of the economy as a crisis of money itself?
The joke goes like this: A physicist, an engineer and an economist are stranded in the desert…
