Mike Norman Economics

The last six months, governments around the world have almost unilaterally committed an auto-destruction of their socioeconomic fabric and collectively of the global economy. It may never return to the “normal” of the times before COVID. That, per se, may not be a bad omen, though, as our pre-corona existence – especially in the west – was everything else but an ethical “normal”....  Anti-neoliberal screed. The tide is turning against neoliberal globalization and totalitarian capitalism,...

The seasonal phenomenon known as "sell in May and walk away" that stock market investors know may be happening in August. Trade and invest using the concepts of MMT. Get a 30-day free trial to MMT Trader. https://www.pitbulleconomics.com/mmt-trader/?s2-ssl=yes/ Download my podcasts! New one every week. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1105286

MMT makes The American Review of Public Administration.Hat tip to Scott Fullwiler (@stf18) on Twitter.Sci-HubDouglas, J. W., & Raudla, R. (2020). What Is the Remedy for State and Local Fiscal Squeeze During the COVID-19 Recession? More Debt, and That Is Okay. The American Review of Public Administration

The evidence that is mounting is allowing researchers to better assess the damage that is emerging from the way in which we are dealing with the coronavirus. One of the important questions that will determine the future trajectory of our economy relates to how many workplaces have disappeared altogether as a result of the businesses disappearing forever as a result of the flow-on impacts of the compulsory lockdown. Last week (July 14, 2020), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released...

Alan Kohler quote. Lars P. Syll’s BlogMMT = Keynes 2.0Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University

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MMT criticism has shirted away from affordability (budget constraint) and fiscal responsibility (default constraint) to an inflation constraint and a curency devaluation constraint.While this is progress, it is probably an impass such as is encountered when theories and their models are founded on incompatible assumptions.On one hand, this is likely to lead to a revisiting of economic theory in light of criticism of neoclassical economics from Keynes, Paleo Keynesians, Post Keynesians and...

James K. Galbraith quote. It's a should-read.Should also read the article from which the quote is extracted.JKG draws a parallel between Keynes and Einstein, and neoclassical economics (which Keynes called classical economics) and Newton. He makes a case that Keynes was thinking specifically of this contrast when he mounted his criticism of the economics of his day, which remains the convention of today owing to the Paul Samuelson's "bastarding" Keynes contribution in his synthesis that...

An international survey of heart scans in people treated for COVID-19 found that 55 per cent of patients had an abnormality. One in seven patients were found to have severe abnormalities. The study adds further evidence to the emerging picture of COVID-19 as a disease of the vascular system in a significant number of cases, and not always primarily a respiratory disease. New Daily  Coronavirus concern: More than half of all COVID-19 patients found to have damaged hearts

Aristotle, in his book on Politics, distinguished between two kinds of activities. Chrematistike (χρηματιστική) ​– sheer money-making – was considered morally inferior to Oikonomia (οἰκονομία) ​– the concern for morally adequate individual and public household management. In fact Aristotle cautioned against separating financial activities from public (political) oversight, as this Chrematistic ​logic leads to maximization strategies resulting in excesses. By contrast, the desirable...