Lars P. Syll

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Och de döda skall icke tiga men tala DE DÖDA De döda skall icke tiga men tala. Förskingrad plåga skall finna sin röst, och när cellernas råttor och mördarnas kolvar förvandlats till aska och urgammalt stoft skall kometens parabel och stjärnornas vågspel ännu vittna om dessa som föll mot sin mur: tvagna i eld men inte förbrunna till glöd, förtrampade slagna men utan ett sår på sin kropp, och ögon som stirrat i fasa skall öppnas i frid, och de döda skall...

Modern economics is sick Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing … If there is such a thing as “original sin” in economic methodology, it is the worship of the idol of the...

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Heterodoxy and pluralism in economics A sense of failure is, for all intents and purposes, being translated into a context of relative success requiring more limited changes – though these are still being seen as significant. Part of the reason that they are seen as significant is that changes from within mainstream economics do not have to be major in order to appear radical. It is our contention that heterodox economics is being marginalised in this...

Sommar i P1 är en ärevördig tradition i svensk radio. Redan som barn brukade yours truly tillbringa långa sommardagar med att ligga på Ribban eller vid Luhrsjön och lyssna med medhavd transistorradio. Tyvärr har programmet med åren genomgått samma utveckling som public service i stort — bra har blivit dåligt, dåligt har blivit sämre, och sämre har blivit ren skit. Visst glimmar det till ibland. Sture Linnér, Ingmar Bergman, Ingvar Carlsson, faller mig genast i minnet. Men mest...

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Equality is a great thing …   What we see happen in the US, the UK, Germany, Sweden, and elsewhere, is deeply disturbing. The rising inequality is outrageous – not the least since it has to a large extent to do with income and wealth increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a very small and privileged elite. Societies where we allow the inequality of incomes and wealth to increase without bounds, sooner or later implode. The cement that keeps us...

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Economic reality — a virulent virus afflicting mainstream economics The WHO today warned of a virulent new virus affecting vulnerable groups in the Mid‐West and Eastern USA. The outbreak, which began in the Mid‐West’s extensive Great Lakes “Freshwater” river system, has recently jumped the “Saltwater” barrier, meaning that the entire population of its target species—“Mainstream” economists—is now at risk. Speaking on behalf of the WHO, Dr Cahuc explained...