Lars P. Syll

[embedded content]Today is Mother’s Day here in Sweden. This one is in loving memory of my mother Lisbeth. Although it is thirty-one years since she passed away, not a single day goes by without her in my mind. Those whom the Gods love die young. But in dreams, I can hear your name. And in dreams, We will meet again. When the seas and mountains fall And we come to end of days, In the dark I hear a call Calling me there I will go there And back again.

Men har de ovanstående exemplen något med regeringens krav på jämställdhetsintegrering att göra? Jo, förmodligen. Men det har, enligt Fredrik Bondestam på Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning, i alla fall inget med hans verksamhet att göra. Det var inte sekretariatet som pressade Lunds universitet att skohorna in Butler på den där kursen för att snygga till jämställdhetssiffrorna. Tvärtom är han kritisk till att så skedde, berättar han. Han är också tveksam till...

Microfoundations — neither law nor true Simon Wren-Lewis is one of many mainstream economists that staunchly defends the idea that having microfoundations for macroeconomics moves macroeconomics forward. A couple of years ago he wrote this: I think the two most important microfoundation led innovations in macro have been intertemporal consumption and rational expectations …  [T]he adoption of rational expectations was not the result of some previous...

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Trump — a postmodern feminist I think it is worth pointing out that parts of the academic community for a long time have been playing along with undermining the essential underpinnings of liberal democracy and that it is not as innocent regarding the rise of Trumpism as it now pretends to be … [One] type of criticism of Trump is about his ethnophobia and lightly hidden racism. A clear expression of this came when Trump dismissed a ruling by a federal judge...

Pandemic depression antidote (XVI)     En bok som varmt kan rekommenderas alla ‘tvångsläsare.’ Oöverträffat underhållande.

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