Apt Kaldor quote, giving Singh advice on development economics.The Case for Concerted ActionAshwani Saith: Ajit Singh Of Cambridge And Chandigarh – An Intellectual Biography Of The Radical Sikh EconomistV. Ramanan
Read More »Ramanan — Labour Day!
Nicholas Kaldor on how neoliberalism weakened labour power. Happy Labor Day to all those that don't have a passive income from portfolio investment. You are the people that get it done. The Case for Concerted ActionLabour Day!V. Ramanan
Read More »Ramanan — Mainstream Economics Compared To Keynesian Times
Nicholas Kaldor quote. The Case for Concerted ActionMainstream Economics Compared To Keynesian TimesV. Ramanan
Read More »Ramanan — Joan Robinson And Nicholas Kaldor On Antagonism To Keynesian Ideas
Some good quotations. The Case for Concerted ActionJoan Robinson And Nicholas Kaldor On Antagonism To Keynesian IdeasV. Ramanan
Read More »The euro area’s deepening political divide
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Two European elections – in Germany on 24 September 2017 and Italy on 4 March 2018 – warn that the peoples of Europe are drifting apart. Much of the recent deepening of these divisions can be traced to Europe’s single currency, the euro. This column argues that the political divide in Europe may now be hard to roll back absent a shift in focus to national priorities that pay urgent attention to the needs of those being left behind. The...
Read More »Ramanan — More Free Trade Orthodoxies
Nice post on trade, citing Joan Robinson and Nicholas Kaldor.The Case for Concerted ActionMore Free Trade OrthodoxiesV. Ramanan
Read More »Ramanan — Anthony Thirlwall On How He Became A Kaldorian
Some links.The Case for Concerted ActionAnthony Thirlwall On How He Became A KaldorianV. Ramanan
Read More »Barkley Rosser — How I Came To No Longer Be A Kaldorian Economist
Of interest to Kaldorians, Post Keynesians, and modern monetary theorists (MMT).EconospeakHow I Came To No Longer Be A Kaldorian EconomistJ. Barkley Rosser | Professor of Economics and Business Administration James Madison University
Read More »Ramanan — A New Way To Learn Economics?
Ramanan comments on CORE Econ.The Case for Concerted ActionA New Way To Learn Economics?V. Ramanan
Read More »Robert Skidelsky — Stylised Facts
As I came to develop a deeper understanding of economics, I became increasingly convinced that Kaldor’s approach was the only way to prevent economics ossifying into pure formalism. “Stylised facts” was his methodological weapon, and I can do no better than quote from his essay “Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth” (1961), with its strongly implied attack on the neoclassical approach to model construction: “We all agree that the basic requirement of any model is that it should be...
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