Lars P. Syll

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Räddaren i nöden (personal) Vad är det som räddar oss när själen är på väg att uppslukas av sorg och mörker? Poesi. Ord som verkligen betyder något. Och musik. Musik som förmår tala till vårt innersta. Musik vi kanske inte förstår — men som förstår oss. Jag tror på den ensamma människan, på henne som vandrar ensam, som inte hundlikt löper till vittring, som inte varglikt flyr för mänskovittring: På en gång människa och anti-människa. Hur nå gemenskap? Fly...

The epidemic of mobile addiction Manfred Spitzer hat ein Buch gegen die „Smartphone-Epidemie“ geschrieben. Er sagt, dass Bilderbücher besser sind als Bildschirme … WELT: Besitzen Sie ein Smartphone? Spitzer: Klar, ich verteufele es auch gar nicht, wie mir immer vorgeworfen wird. Ich weise nur auf die negativen Auswirkungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen hin. WELT: Zum Beispiel Kurzsichtigkeit? Spitzer: Das Smartphone ist das digitale Endgerät mit dem...

Wren-Lewis — the flimflam anti-pluralist Again and again, Oxford professor Simon Wren-Lewis rides out to defend orthodox macroeconomic theory against attacks from heterodox critics. In one of his latest attacks on heterodox economics and students demanding pluralist economics education he writes: The danger in encouraging plurality is that you make it much easier for politicians to select the advice they like, because there is almost certain to be a school...

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Simon Wren-Lewis’ warped view of ​modern macroeconomics There is something that just does not sit very well with Oxford macroeconomist Simon Wren-Lewis’ view of modern macroeconomics. On more than one occasion has this self-proclaimed ‘New Keynesian’ macroeconomist approvingly written about the ‘impressive’ theoretical insights New Classical economics has brought to macroeconomics. In one of his latest blog posts he once again  shows how devoted  he is to...

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Michael Hudson — life and thought of an MMT’er  [embedded content] Absolutely fabulous. A must-watch. Advertisements

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Wren-Lewis insults medical science In a discussion today on twitter one discussant was questioning if economics really could be considered a science, adding that in physics — contrary to economics — “there are no different school of thoughts on ‘Newton’s Laws of Motion’. To this Simon Wren-Lewis answered: Exactly the same is true of mainstream economics. There are also groups who cannot live with the mainstream who form schools of thought, like MMT. But...