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Robert Skidelsky gives a lecture below on “Muddles in Models: Unsettled Questions in Macroeconomic Policy,” held at the 13th International Post Keynesian Conference, 15–18th September, 2016 in Kansas City:[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...

Realist Left’s latest analysis of the US presidential and US Congressional elections:[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+Samizdat Broadcasts YouTube ChannelSamizdat: For the Freedom Loving LeftistI’m on...

This is an excellent recent interview with Paul Davidson, one of the most important Post Keynesian economists of our time:[embedded content]His new book is Paul Davidson, Post Keynesian Theory and Policy: A Realistic Analysis of the Market Oriented Capitalist Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2015.Here is a quick bibliography of Paul Davidson’s work:Davidson, Paul. 1972. Money and the Real World. Macmillan, London.Davidson, Paul and Sidney Weintraub. 1973. “Money as Cause and...

His latest curious speech:[embedded content]The calls for banning or restricting lobbying on the US government (or by ex-government officials) will make a lot of corporate interests extremely angry.And we also have this startling promise:[embedded content]Really? Does this include organisations like AIPAC? If so, that would be quite a stunning reform, but over at Trump’s official website where the policy is described, we read this:“Fourth: I am going to issue a lifetime ban against senior...

Here:[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+Samizdat Broadcasts YouTube ChannelSamizdat: For the Freedom Loving LeftistI’m on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lord_Keynes2

Steve Keen discusses Austrian economics:[embedded content][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+Samizdat Broadcasts YouTube ChannelSamizdat: For the Freedom Loving LeftistI’m on Twitter: Lord Keynes...

Ryan England helps run this very good Alternative Left Facebook group. He has the Alt Left blog Samizdat: For the Freedom Loving Leftist, and has a Samizdat Broadcasts YouTube Channel.He is interviewed here by Robert Stark (the sound quality is not always the best). They are joined by Rabbit and Alt Left founder Robert Lindsay.They discuss the following topics:Ryan’s political journey, and his early experiences with censorship from both the right and left The political situation in Canada...

Here is Lenin speaking about mass immigration in 1913:“Capitalism has given rise to a special form of migration of nations. The rapidly developing industrial countries, introducing machinery on a large scale and ousting the backward countries from the world market, raise wages at home above the average rate and thus attract workers from the backward countries.Hundreds of thousands of workers thus wander hundreds and thousands of versts. Advanced capitalism drags them forcibly into its orbit,...

Here (the debate begins at 34.00):[embedded content]I’m afraid I have election fatigue.I’ll limit myself to a few comments on important issues, and leave debates on the supreme court, the second amendment, gun rights and abortion to Americans.It strikes me that the quality of this debate declined considerably over the second debate.Hillary told lie after lie. Take her bizarre lie that her vision of open borders in the Americas was just about “energy” (?!).Here is the full quotation of the...

Steve Keen discusses neoclassical equilibrium theory in the lecture below:[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+Samizdat Broadcasts YouTube ChannelSamizdat: For the Freedom Loving LeftistI’m on Twitter: Lord...