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Madon pekar på det bisarra att inte så få som kallar sig antirasister gör en halsbrytande manöver när de faktiskt förespråkar ökad rassegregation. Man vill ha särskilda ”rum” dit bara de med rätt etnicitet har tillträde, man vill att svarta patienter bara skall vårdas av svarta läkare och sjuksköterskor, man vill att bara svarta musiker skall få spela ”svart” musik, enbart en transsexuell skådespelare kan få en roll som transperson, enbart ”rasifierade” journalister skall få...
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There is a trade-off in economics (and elsewhere) between rigor and relevance: the more we achieve deductive certainty in our arguments, the less likely it is that we will achieve socially and politically relevant conclusions. This trade-off, as we shall see, is not logically inevitable but, nevertheless, it is rarely avoided in economic theorizing. Sraffian economics, or so-called neo-Ricardian economics, is a striking example of this tradeoff. From the outset in the pages of...
Read More »Göran Perssons hjältesaga — en farlig lögn
Göran Perssons hjältesaga — en farlig lögn Göran Perssons ord från mitten av 1990-talet ekar fortfarande genom svensk politik. Varje politiskt förslag som kan höja statsskulden bemöts av varningar om hur Sverige på den tiden stod på ruinens brant. Perssons resa till New York, där han enligt egen utsago tvingades gå med mössan i hand till Wall Streets lånehajar och utlova nedskärningar, har blivit en svensk lägereldsberättelse, en hjältesaga där resan och...
Read More »The anatomy of financial crises
The anatomy of financial crises Black Friday 1929 market fundamentalist wet dreams of eternal growth took a serious hit. The stock market bubble exploded and crashed. Today we have a stock market situation starting to more and more remind us of that in 1929. Those of us who know Keynes-Fisher-Kindleberger-Minsky-Shiller and have not completely forgotten all about economic history are beginning to worry. My presentation The anatomy of financial...
Read More »Foucault — the faux radical
Foucault — the faux radical Ptolemy constructed an inordinately complex model of the universe in order to make all of the empirical data conform to a central, organizing false assumption, namely, that the earth was at the center. Michel Foucault, as we shall see, made a similar contribution to contemporary social science … Given Foucault’s general dismissal of anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles, as well as his reputation … of supporting de Gaulle...
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