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Another short review and a letter from John Kenneth Galbraith to Joan Robinson. It is timely given the present attention to the persisting paucity of women economists in the profession and the professional literature. Many feel that Joan Robinson never got the credit she was due.Naked KeynesianismSunday Reading: Economic Letters of NoteMatias Vernengo | Associate Professor of Economics, Bucknell University

Some history if you have time this long Labor Day weekend in the US marking the end of summer and vacation season and the return to business as usual on Tuesday. So expect light posting over the weekend. Video series. Galbraith fully acknowledged the successes of the market system in economics but associated it with instability, inefficiency and social inequity. He advocated government policies and interventions to remedy these perceived faults. In his book Economics and the Public...