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[embedded content]Why Rationality is WrongAbove is a video by "Dr. Skeleman", first in a series. Nick Romeo, in The New Yorker, on The CORE textbook. Steve Keen's obituary of Janos Kornai. J. Barkley Rosser's comments on Kornai's passing. I feel I should have more to say. I recommend autobiography, By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, although it is somewhat dry. J. Barkley Rosser's obituary of Peter Flaschel

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A podcast interview with Philip Mirowski about how, roughly, neoliberals are exploiting the Corona Virus crisis in America. A book, Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, edited by Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski. Somewhere this is or was freely downloadable in PDF. A podcast interview with Marshall Steinbaum about the Chicago school of economics. A podcast episode, by two economics professor, trying to present an overview of Joan Robinson. A downloadable book, Labour and Value:...

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Keen’s Debunking Economics Most Popular Among Popular Critiques

Table 1: Selected Critiques AuthorBookNumberRatingsMeanRatingMoshe AdlerEconomics for the Rest of Us214Rod Hill & Tony MyattThe Economics Anti-Textbook134Steve KeenDebunking Economics, 1st edition253 to 4Debunking Economics, 2nd edition564 to 5Paul OrmerodThe Death of Economics103 to 4John QuigginEconomics in Two Lessons24John WeeksEconomics of the 1%134 to 5 Steve Keen seems to be the most popular of those writing internal critiques of economics directed towards the common reader. I...

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Interview in Press TV News on the ominous signs of a coming new recession 14-8-2019

This is an interview in Press TV News (Stavros Mavroudeas & Steve Keen) on the recent turmoil in financial markets and the ominous signs of a coming new recession in the world economy. With Stev Keen we agreed that the gist of the matter are the unresolved causes of the 2008 crisis. However, we disagreed on its causes (Steve attributing it to deficient demand and private debt, me emphasising the falling profitability). We also disagreed on the subsequent measures used to surpass the...

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Steve Keen and others, in a showy bit of performance art in London, have called for a reformation of economics. Imitating Luther, they have nailed some theses to a door. Here's some links: Guardian article Letters to the editor in response. New Weather Institute blog post. 33 Theses. An article by Ben Chu, in the Independent saying, more or less, let's not get carried away. I do not know who Charles Mudede is or what his platform is. His style is more popular and very different from mine....

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Ian Wright has had a blog for about six months. Scott Carter announces that Sraffa's notes for are now available online. (The announcement is good for linking to Carter's paper explaining the arrangement of the notes.) David Glasner has been thinking about intertemporal equilibrium. Brian Romanchuk questions the use of models of infinitesimal agents in economics. (Some at ejmr say he is totally wrong, but others cannot make any sense of such models, either. I am not sure if my use of a...

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