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Below are updated links to various posts on 19th century economic history, in the US, the UK, Australia and Japan, as well posts analysing the deflation of 1873 to 1896.(1) General“The Gold Standard did not Prevent Price Inflation,” October 26, 2012.“The Classical Gold Standard Era was a Myth,” March 18, 2013. “The Profit Deflation of the 1890s,” June 13, 2013.“Alfred Marshall’s Judgement on the ‘Depression’ of 1873–1896,” June 13, 2013.“S. B. Saul on the Profit Deflation of the 1873–1896...

Nicholas Kaldor (12 May 1908–30 September 1986) was one of the most important Post Keynesian economists of the 20th century. Studies of Kaldor’s work and biographies of Kaldor can be found in these works:Books and Biographies on Kaldor Thirlwall, A. P. 1987. Nicholas Kaldor. Wheatsheaf, Brighton.Targetti, Ferdinando. 1992. Nicholas Kaldor: The Economics and Politics of Capitalism as a Dynamic System. Clarendon Press, Oxford.Nell, Edward J. and Willi Semmler (eds.). 1991. Nicholas Kaldor and...

Tony Thirlwall gives a lecture on the life and work of Nicholas Kaldor:[embedded content]Some good books and biographies on Kaldor:Thirlwall, A. P. 1987. Nicholas Kaldor. Wheatsheaf, Brighton.Targetti, Ferdinando. 1992. Nicholas Kaldor: The Economics and Politics of Capitalism as a Dynamic System. Clarendon Press, Oxford.Targetti F. and A. P. Thirlwall. 1989. The Essential Kaldor. Duckworth, London. King, J. E. 2009. Nicholas Kaldor. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York.My posts on...

Stephen Cohen is interviewed by Tucker Carlson after Trump’s Syria strikes and the calls for regime change in Syria:[embedded content]You know we live in a bizarre, upside-down world when Ann Coulter starts talking sense on Syria and appears to have become a peacenik:[embedded content]Update Stephen Cohen’s interview on Democracy Now:[embedded content]See here if there are problems with the embedded video.Realist LeftRealist Left on Twitter @realistleftRealist Left on...

A viral video of an army of robots sorting packages in a Chinese delivery warehouse (more here):[embedded content]And here:[embedded content]The notion we need unending Third World mass immigration because of supposed labour shortages in the future has to be the single biggest absurdity pushed by advocates of multiculturalism and Neoliberals.Instead, we are going to import millions of immigrants only to find there is no work for them, not to mention the millions of native-born citizens.And...

There is a new interview here with Steve Keen in which he talks about his career and economics:[embedded content]Realist LeftRealist Left on Twitter @realistleftRealist Left on RedditRealist Left BlogRealist Left on YouTubeLord Keynes on FacebookSocial Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern LeftAlt Left on the Internet:Alternative Left on FacebookAlt-Left on Google+Alt-Left Closed Facebook GroupPrince of Queens YouTube Channel Prince of...

The veteran ex-CIA officer Ray McGovern, of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and who chaired the US National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President’s Daily Brief in the 1980s, citing actual well-placed sources in the US government, gives us what sounds to me like the truth about this chemical attack in Syria:[embedded content]This confirms the same intelligence reported to Philip Giraldi by intelligence and military personnel on the ground in the Middle East as...

See this analysis at Zerohedge:Tyler Durden, “Former CIA Officer: ‘The Intelligence confirms the Russian Account on Syria,’” Zerohedge.com, 8 April, 2017.In essence, even though there aren’t any big-name Neocons in high-level positions in the Trump administration, it is the National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster who is supporting a return to Neoconservative-style policies in Syria:“Just two days after news broke of an alleged poison-gas attack in northern Syria, President Trump brushed...

If the Trump administration moves to support the failed Neocon and Liberal interventionist polices of overthrowing the Assad regime in Syria, it will be another bloody disaster for the Middle East. In brief, the US launched an attack of 50–60 Tomahawk missiles against the Syrian Shayrat airbase near Homs, in retaliation for the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime near Idlib, in an area held by Islamist rebels. The Russians were warned in advance, and “U.S. military planners...