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Cullen Roche: Pragmatic Capitalism

Understanding the Modern Monetary System – Updated!
June 29, 2023
We’re Moving!
February 27, 2023
Has Housing Bottomed?
February 22, 2023
The Economics of a United States Divorce
February 21, 2023
Three Things I Think I Think – No Landing
February 16, 2023

EconoSpeak

On Antonio Negri’s refusal of work and Karl Marx’s disposable time: a Q&A with Michael Hardt
March 6, 2025
The Theory of Crisis: Sandwichman’s and Uno Kōzō’s (both Marx’s)
February 25, 2025
The Theory of Crisis: Kōzō Uno’s and Sandwichman’s
February 23, 2025
Hot off the press… and cut… and fold… and glue. It’s Amazing!
February 6, 2025
On the politics that would make a post-growth transition possible
January 30, 2025

Francis Coppola

The myths that refuse to die
June 6, 2024
Why the Tories’ “put people to work” growth strategy has failed
June 4, 2024
Demons deserve our sympathy
May 14, 2024
Trade lunacy is back
April 30, 2024
The West must no longer tolerate Israel’s human rights breaches
April 8, 2024

John Quiggin

Monday Message Board
March 9, 2025
Monday Message Board
March 2, 2025
Dispensing with the tech-bros
February 25, 2025
Dispensing with the US-centric financial system
February 21, 2025
Monday Message Board
February 16, 2025

Lars P. Syll

Schuldenbremse bye bye
March 18, 2025
Vad historien lär oss
March 18, 2025
What’s wrong with economics — a primer
March 18, 2025
Late-winter blessing (personal)
March 15, 2025
Hovern’engan
March 14, 2025

Michael Hudson

Something Nutty Emerging Here
March 11, 2025
Why Banking Isn’t What You Think It Is
March 6, 2025
The Horizon Nears on America’s Free Financial Ride
March 3, 2025
Capital as Power in the Polycrisis
February 25, 2025
Why Gold Prices Should Rise—But Don’t
February 14, 2025

Mike Norman Economics

The sellers are back!
April 10, 2025
What the heck? Market moon shot!
April 10, 2025
My bond trade blew up?
April 8, 2025
The Accursed Tariffs — NeilW
April 8, 2025
IRS has agreed to share migrants’ tax information with ICE
April 8, 2025

Mosler Economics

Warren Mosler | Deep 6 The Financial Sector
July 26, 2024
Warren Mosler | The 8th Deadly Innocent Fraud
July 25, 2024
Updated blog posts
January 14, 2023
Housing permits and starts, GDP forecast
October 19, 2022
Housing permits and starts, GDP forecast
October 19, 2022

Naked Keynesianism

The behavior of the nominal exchange rate between the Brazilian Real and the dollar in 2024
March 17, 2025
Serrano, Summa and Marins on Inflation, and Monetary Policy
February 28, 2025
What is heterodox economics?
February 20, 2025
The 8th Godley-Tobin Lecture
February 13, 2025
Milei and real wages in Argentina
January 31, 2025

New Economic Perspectives

RobotBulls: Einsatz von KI und Blockchain zur Datenverarbeitung im Bereich der Kryptowährungen
May 29, 2024
New Economic Perspectives 1970-01-01 00:00:00
August 11, 2022
Standard Money Theory and the Coronavirus
April 9, 2020
Standard Money Theory and the Coronavirus
April 9, 2020
Standard Money Theory and the Coronavirus
April 9, 2020

Peter Cooper: Heteconomist

‘Unproductive’ Labor and Marxist Resistance to MMT
August 16, 2022
‘Unproductive’ Labor and Marxist Resistance to MMT
August 16, 2022
A Currency-Issuing Government Must Spend Before Non-Government Can Meet Its Net Financial Liabilities
November 5, 2021
A Currency-Issuing Government Must Spend Before Non-Government Can Meet Its Net Financial Liabilities
November 5, 2021
Comments on Recent Marxist Claims about MMT and Incidentally Kalecki
November 1, 2021

Post-Keynesian

Austrian Capital Theory And Triple-Switching In The Corn-Tractor Model
April 11, 2025
Robert Lucas On Recessions As Workers Choosing To Take Long Vacations
April 7, 2025
Perturbations Of Selected Parameters In The Corn-Tractor Model
April 3, 2025
Duncan Foley On Why General Equilibrium Maybe Is Not Neoclassical Economics
March 31, 2025
Double Fluke Cases For Triple-Switching In The Corn-Tractor Model
March 27, 2025

Progressive Economics Forum

Subsidized housing for francophone seniors in minority situations
February 28, 2025
Homelessness among older persons
February 4, 2025
The economic policy legacy of the Justin Trudeau Liberal Government, 2015 to 2024
January 7, 2025
Interrogating the ‘Vibecession’
December 2, 2024
Homelessness planning during COVID
November 14, 2024

Real-World Economics Review

The pretence-of-knowledge syndrome
March 12, 2025
Crypto and Donald Trump’s strategic baseball card reserve
March 9, 2025
How economists forgot the real world
March 8, 2025
My Father’s Disgust
March 5, 2025
The elites’ big lie on inequality
March 3, 2025

Robert Vienneau: Thoughts Economics

Austrian Capital Theory And Triple-Switching In The Corn-Tractor Model
April 11, 2025
Robert Lucas On Recessions As Workers Choosing To Take Long Vacations
April 7, 2025
Perturbations Of Selected Parameters In The Corn-Tractor Model
April 3, 2025
Duncan Foley On Why General Equilibrium Maybe Is Not Neoclassical Economics
March 31, 2025
Double Fluke Cases For Triple-Switching In The Corn-Tractor Model
March 27, 2025

Chris Blattman

Cyber Warfare Is Getting Real: The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater—or the pursuit of peace more complicated
December 18, 2022
The Hard Truth About Long Wars: Why the Conflict in Ukraine Won’t End Anytime Soon
November 29, 2022
Presentation to the Joint Chiefs Operations Directorate
November 11, 2022
Spectator picks WWF as a best book of 2022
November 10, 2022
From street fights to world wars: What gang violence can teach us about conflict
November 10, 2022

Stavros Mavroudeas Blog

CfP of Marxist Macroeconomic Modelling workgroup – 18th WAPE Forum, Istanbul August 6-8, 2025
March 14, 2025
Is Neoliberalism still the dominant economic paradigm in the West today? – S.Mavroudeas
March 1, 2025
‘Economic Crisis and the crisis of Economics: Political Economy as a realistic and credible alternative’ – S.Mavroudeas (video and supporting material)
February 8, 2025
Financialisation versus Marxism – S.Mavroudeas (video and supporting material)
February 8, 2025
Financialisation versus Marxism
February 8, 2025

The Angry Bear

JOLTS revisions from Yesterday’s Report
March 12, 2025
No Invading Allies Act
March 12, 2025
A Developed Taste
March 12, 2025
The North American Automobile Industry Waits for Trump and the Gov. to Act
March 12, 2025
Families Struggle Paying for Child Care While Working
March 12, 2025

Yanis Varoufakis: Thoughts for the Post-2008 World

Yanis Varoufakis über den Bedarf der Welt an einer neuen Bewegung der Blockfreien Staaten
March 6, 2023
Yanis Varoufakis speaks on Julian Assange at the Belmarsh Tribunal Sydney, Australia.
March 6, 2023
Εκδήλωση | Από την Κρίση στον Πόλεμο: Ένας Χρόνος Μετά
March 5, 2023
Γ.Βαρουφάκης: Η τραγωδία στα Τέμπη επιβεβαιώνει πως ο διαχωρισμός δικτύου-παρόχων είναι εγκληματικός
March 3, 2023
Yanis Varoufakis | Cambridge Union
March 1, 2023

Baseline Scenario

A Few Quick Announcements
May 9, 2023
Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: In Support of a Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports
October 11, 2022
Assessment: Stacey Abrams’ Budget Plan
October 5, 2022
Imposing Sanctions on Russian Energy Exports
March 4, 2022
Quick Housekeeping Note
December 5, 2020

New Economics Foundation

Are we falling for the myth of minority rule?
February 26, 2025
Is the Labour government delivering on its promises?
February 21, 2025
Whose growth is it anyway?
February 20, 2025
How local services are showing there is another way to provide for communities
February 18, 2025
The Bank of England is costing us billions
February 17, 2025

Thomas Palley: Economics for Democratic and Open Societies

The Ukraine war and Europe’s deepening march of folly
March 24, 2025
Germany’s election & why it is important to understand the Ukraine War
February 2, 2025
The Ukraine – Russia war explained: how the US exploited internal fractures in the post-Soviet order (plus lessons for Georgia)
November 10, 2024
Causes of the Ukraine War & the case for Georgian non-alignment — An interview I gave in Tbilisi, Georgia
October 31, 2024
We still ask if 80 years ago they (ordinary Germans) knew?
October 29, 2024

Multiplier Effect

Multiplier Effect 1970-01-01 00:00:00
October 19, 2023
Otmar Issing Is Still Living in His Monetary Fantasy World
April 22, 2022
Otmar Issing Is Still Living in His Monetary Fantasy World
April 22, 2022
An Accommodative Fiscal Stance Is Crucial for India
January 18, 2022
An Accommodative Fiscal Stance Is Crucial for India
January 18, 2022

Prime, Policy Research in Macroeconomics

UK workers’ pay over 6 years – just about keeping up with inflation (but one sector does much better…)
March 20, 2025
Argentina’s Economic Shock Therapy: Assessing the Impact of Milei’s Austerity Policies and the Road Ahead
March 13, 2025
The Poverty of Neo-liberal Economics: Lessons from Türkiye’s ‘Unorthodox’ Central Banking Experiment
February 16, 2025
Global Economic Governance: What’s “Growth” Got to Do with It?
August 16, 2024
From Chile in 1973 to Argentina and Türkiye in 2023: Economic Genocide Continues
May 24, 2024

Seldomly updated

Multiplier Effect 1970-01-01 00:00:00
October 19, 2023
A Few Quick Announcements
May 9, 2023
Letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: In Support of a Price Cap on Russian Oil Exports
October 11, 2022
Assessment: Stacey Abrams’ Budget Plan
October 5, 2022
Otmar Issing Is Still Living in His Monetary Fantasy World
April 22, 2022

Sergio Cesaratto: Politica and EconomiaBlog

Nuovo Working Paper di dialogo interdisciplinare fra economisti e antichisti
December 12, 2024
La nuova governance fiscale europea
November 18, 2024
Draghi mercantilista?
November 4, 2024
Il “Nobel” ad Acemoglu et c. commentato e criticato su Ottolina TV
October 22, 2024
On an unknown element of the Eurosystem monetary governance
August 7, 2024

Ann Pettifor: Debtonation

Verso Live: Ann Pettifor and The Care Collective
September 24, 2020
World Class Live Casino & Online Sports Betting
August 28, 2020
IST2020 Keynote by Ann Pettifor
August 19, 2020
IST 2020 Ann Pettifor – Graphic Recording
August 19, 2020
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August 4, 2020

Robert Skidelsky

Lord Skidelsky to ask His Majesty’s Government what is their policy with regard to the Ukraine war following the new policy of the government of the United States of America.
March 18, 2025
House of Lords Speech – Ukraine: “A wake up call” (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)
March 7, 2025
Speech in the House of Lords – Conduct Committee
March 7, 2025
The American Conservative – Why Is the UK So Invested in the Russia–Ukraine War?
February 25, 2025
The American Conservative: Skidelsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Future of European Security
February 25, 2025

Thomas Piketty

Regaining confidence in Europe
March 18, 2025
Trump, national-capitalism at bay
February 18, 2025
Democracy vs oligarchy, the fight of the century
January 21, 2025
For a new left-right cleavage
December 17, 2024
Unite France and Germany to save Europe
November 12, 2024

Philip Pilkington: Fixing Economists

Fixing the Economists 1970-01-01 00:00:00
June 17, 2022
FX Crises and the Trajectory of Interest Rates
September 22, 2021
Is China Facing a Minsky Moment?
September 21, 2021
Inflation, the Quality Factor and Distribution
September 16, 2021
Investing During Inflation
September 7, 2021

Steve Keen’s Debt Watch

"Rachel Reeves is Wrong" Top Economist Warns the UK
March 16, 2025
Top Economist Explains: The U.S. is Wrong about Energy…
March 9, 2025
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March 6, 2025

Jodi Beggs: Economists Do It With Models

Economists Do It With Models 1970-01-01 00:00:00
November 4, 2024
Youngling kills anakin
May 29, 2022
High Tide (Jody Beggs Band)
December 21, 2021
The Habtic Standard
February 17, 2021
The Habtic Standard
December 19, 2020

John Aziz: Azizonomics

My Future
August 27, 2020
Britain in the Boris Era
February 29, 2020
My Thoughts On Brexit
October 19, 2019
Bitcoin Is Failing As Money—But Bitcoin Cash Isn’t
December 25, 2017
Don’t Tolerate The Trumpists
August 10, 2017

Socialdem. 21st Century

“Taxes drive Money”: What does this mean in MMT?
August 13, 2024
Per Bylund’s “Is it Money because it is redeemed in Tax Payments?”: A Post Keynesian Response
July 23, 2024
Radhika Desai on the Labour Theory of Value: A Refutation
July 20, 2024
Per Bylund versus Carl Menger on Taxes driving the Value of Money
July 20, 2024
Marx’s Capital, Volume 3, Chapter 10: A Critical Summary
July 15, 2024

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