Real-World Economics Review

from Lukas Bäuerle and current issue of RWER Pressing arguments for a paradigm shift in economics – based on an assessment of mainstream economics and its shortcomings – are out there for quite a while now. The emperor has been declared long dead in intellectual terms (Keen, 2001), but it is still firmly alive institutionally. This is the only reason why we still have to talk about it at all. Having said this, it goes without saying that the “intellectual monoculture” (Graupe, 2015) in...

from John Komlos and current issue of RWER We are at the cusp of a new era. The 21st century did not begin in earnest until 2008, signifying a seismic break with the past in ways far too numerous to mention. To be sure, the Dot-Com bubble could have served as a lesson for the vulnerability of Wall Street and that it desperately needed vigilant oversight, but the economy emerged from that short recession relatively unscathed, and the warning sign was misunderstood. Sure, myriad of astute...

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from Richard Parker and current issue of RWER So then what might a project for a Post-Neoliberal Economics entail?  Since I think “neoliberalism” as concept and practice represents one more of an ongoing series of ultimately ad hoc justifications for the hierarchic structuring of human societies, and think that the larger concept of “capitalism” contains already many visibly differentiated stages of its own in that long story of hierarchies, here are several modest ideas I’d propose....

Quantitative Easing impacts us all, even we don’t understand it. The Fed starts buying bonds, which lifts the stock market and lifts profits. This only benefits rich people – or does it? Discover how it affects your mortgage, car loans and so much more. ? Subscribe for more clips like this: https://www.youtube.com/user/thomhartmann?sub_confirmation=1 Dean Baker joined Thom explains quantitative easing and why it impacts our pockets. Dean Baker is the Co-Founder & Senior...

from Lars Syll Government deficits always lead to a dollar-for-dollar increase in the supply of net financial assets held in the nongovernment bucket. That’s not a theory. That’s not an opinion. It’s just the cold hard reality of stock-flow consistent accounting. So fiscal deficits — even with government borrowing — can’t leave behind a smaller supply of dollar savings. And if that can’t happen, then a shrinking pool of dollar savings can’t be responsible for driving borrowing costs...

from Richard Koo in current issue of RWER When Milton Friedman visited Japan in the 1950s and spoke to economist Kazushi Nagasu, he had strong things to say about the plight of his people: “I am a Jew…I do not think I need to tell you what kind of horrible deaths Jewish people had to face. The real drive behind my argument for free markets is the bloodied cries of Jewish people who perished under Hitler’s and Stalin’s regimes, and their message is that the best way to happiness is to...

Volume 11, Issue 2 – July 2021download the whole issue EU taxation capabilities and the way forward towards institutional progress in Europe: an interview with Jakob KapellerMitja Stefancic Beyond Economism (Extract from R B Norgaard article) Economics — a severe case of misplaced idolatry of ‘rigour’ Lars Syll Austerity and gender in Brazil: insights from the international literatureAna Luíza Matos de Oliveira and Magali N. Alloatti Each paradigm in economics is a scientific and...

from Richard Norgaard and current issue of RWER Planet Earth is now experiencing more rapid environmental change and greater extremes, clear indicators that humanity faces a challenging if not grim future. Unfolding in real time before our eyes are the staid forebodings of five assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the urgent warnings of natural scientists (Hobbs and Cramer, 2008; Beach and Clark, 2015; Bradford et al., 2018; Vosen, 2020; Ripple et al.,...

from Maria Alejandra Mad In the 1960s, Hayek argued that: “in the field of complex phenomena, the term” law “, as well as the concepts of cause and effect, are not applicable”. Regarding “The Theory of Complex Phenomena”, Hayek warned that in the case of complex phenomena, the scientist must give priority to the development of theoretical assumptions, instead of privileging empirical tests. The economist perceives the market system as a complex system in which the coordination process of...