Heterodox
In a series of articles for Independent Australia, I’ve been looking at how the pandemic has exposed, even more sharply, the zombie ideas that survived the GFC, and gave rise to my book Zombie Economics. The latest instalment is on privatisation. The next will be on austerity. Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Read More »More zombies: the efficient market hypothesis
As part of my response to the pandemic, I’m looking at the way the undead ideas I attempted to kill off in my Zombie Economics have failed yet again. I;m doing it as a series in Independent Australia. The second instalment, Pandemic highlights problems with efficient-market hypothesis has just run. Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Read More »Australia isn’t doing its part for the global climate …
… Sooner or later we’ll have to pay our share. That’s the headline for my latest piece in The Guardian. The more important message is in the “standfirst” text that runs before the article proper. The cost of responding to climate change is trivial compared with the benefits To spell this out, here are the concluding paras of the article The good news is that the cost of an emergency response, while large compared with an efficient policy, will be very small in relation to...
Read More »Connected and Disaffected
That’s the title of a UK podcast on which I appeared recently, talking about Zombie Economics Soundcloud stream: https://soundcloud.com/connectedanddisaffected/season-2-episode-1-the-grand-relaunch Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=165173310736451&id=114184012502048 Twitter: https://twitter.com/CandDPodcast/status/925800309351428097 It can also be found on ITunes and other podcast directories.
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