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Lars Pålsson Syll
Professor at Malmö University. Primary research interest - the philosophy, history and methodology of economics.

Lars P. Syll

I think I’ll get a manicure …

I think I’ll get a manicure … In 1936, Keynes sat next to the British playwright W.H. Auden at a dinner and paid close attention to his fingers. Auden, wrote Keynes, was most​ charming, intelligent, straightforward​, youthful, a sort of senior undergraduate; altogether delightful, but but but — his finger nails are eaten to the bones with dirt and wet, one of the worst cases ever, like a preparatory schoolboy. So the infantilism is not altogether put on. It...

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Så här löser vi skoleländet

Så här löser vi skoleländet Ett skäl att rikta ett statsbidrag till lärarassistenter kan vara att staten vill tillföra mer resurser till skolan. Eftersom kommunerna är självständiga är emellertid detta ett rätt hopplöst sätt. Inget hindrar kommunen från att helt enkelt stuva om i skolbudgeten så att mer resurser läggs på de assistenter som kommer med statsbidrag, samtidigt som skolbudgeten hålls konstant. I så fall är det enda man åstadkommer att skolor...

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Kaldor-Verdoorn and long-run demand effects

Kaldor-Verdoorn and long-run demand effects In standard mainstream economic analysis — take a quick look in e.g. Mankiw’s or Krugman’s textbooks — a demand expansion may very well raise measured productivity in the short run. But in the long run, expansionary demand policy measures cannot lead to sustained higher productivity and output levels. In some non-standard heterodox analyses, however, labour productivity growth is often described as a function of...

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General equilibrium — economics as ideology

General equilibrium — economics as ideology Although I never believed it when I was young and held scholars in great respect, it does seem to be the case that ideology plays a large role in economics. How else to explain Chicago’s acceptance of not only general equilibrium but a particularly simplified version of it as ‘true’ or as a good enough approximation to the truth? Or how to explain the belief that the only correct models are linear and that the von...

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Knock Down The House

Knock Down The House  [embedded content] Courage is not anything very common, and the value we put on it is a witness to its rarity. Courage is a capability to confront fear. Courage is to do the right thing in spite of danger and fear. To keep on even if opportunities to turn back are given. Like in the great stories. The ones where people have lots of chances of turning back — but don’t.

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Die kuriosen Folgen des Bildungsverfalls

Nicht alle haben seinerzeit in den Klagechor eingestimmt, als es modisch wurde, den Niedergang der Lesekultur im Allgemeinen und den Untergang des gedruckten Buches im Besonderen zu bejammern … Gewisse Klassiker-Editionen, auch bessere, gaben zwar den Erwartungen gemäß etwas im Preis nach, aber alles irgendwie Entlegene und Exquisite behauptete sich entgegen den Wünschen der Sammler, wurde sogar deutlich teurer oder plötzlich richtig selten … Denn dieses ist der Grund für die...

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