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from Peter Radford  This is something I need to get off my desktop.  It’s just for fun … Asymmetry is the very beginning and end of an economy.  It’s the bumps that matter.  Explain them and you explain the economy.  After all the very notion of exchange presumes differences between those involved, and difference is just another way off saying asymmetry.  Sweep the bumps away with a broad brush of supposedly superb logic and you eliminate the very object of your study.  That is if your...

Last week, I gave a presentation at the 2024 Australian Basic Income Fellows Workshop. Most of the talks were about Basic Income trials, which have been undertaken around the world. I focused on something more modest but perhaps more achievable: getting evidence on the effects of Scrapping or Scaling Back Mutual Obligation and Income Management. You can download the Powerpoint presentation here or see the slides on my Substack Share this:Like Loading...

from Lars Syll Economists have sometimes misled us with their belief that it is their job to tell “white lies” to scare the population into “behaving themselves.” We think that is the wrong approach. This book trusts you, the reader, with that truth. We trust you to do what you can to spread the truth and to hold policymakers accountable. The truth is that government faces political constraints. It faces resource constraints. It faces technological constraints. But it does not, cannot,...

 Στα πλαίσια των σεμιναρίων του Τμήματος Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής που διοργανώνει το Εργαστήριο Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής (ΕΚοιΠ – https://socpollab.panteion.gr/) την Τετάρτη 11 Δεκεμβρίου 2024 (18:00-21:00) ο Σταύρος Μαυρουδέας (Καθηγητής, Τμ. Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο) θα παρουσιάσει εισήγησε με θέμα «Η έννοια της δομικής αλλαγής στα διαφορετικά ρεύματα της οικονομικής σκέψης και στην τρέχουσα οικονομική πολιτική». Τα σεμινάρια του ΕΚοιΠ είναι ανοικτά και διεξάγονται στην...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A well constructed government, at a minimum, provides its citizens FDR’s four freedoms:  A good well constructed government would want what is best for the society or nation as a whole; understand that a healthy, well fed, well housed, well educated society or nation with a stable quality government is best.   A well constructed, healthy […] The post The Government And The Economy appeared first on Angry Bear.

real-world economics review issue no. 109 download whole issue Culture – the elephant in the roomHardy Hanappi     22 The capitalization of everythingShimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan     18 From the Bretton Woods system to global stagnationLeon Podkaminer     29  The role of internetization in creating sustainable development for the Global SouthConstantine E. Passaris     35  The works of Ha-Joon ChangJunaid B. Jahangir     56 A critique of Saito’s Slow Down; How degrowth communism...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]It seems that Hegseth may be forced to end his bid for Secretary of Defense due to his alcoholism and history of sexual abuse and mismanagement of nonprofits.  On one level this is as it should be.  I could probably live with Hegseth if he was well qualified for the job but got quietly soused […] The post The Hegseth dysfunction appeared first on Angry Bear.

There are encouraging signs that Canada’s economy and labour market are improving after a period of stagnation brought about by the Bank of Canada’s aggressive interest rate hikes in 2022 and 2023. Newly released data for the third quarter of 2024 (July-September) shows the economy has continued to grow, albeit slowly. Consumer spending was the brightest light in the third quarter data: growing at an annualized rate of 3.5% (in real, inflation-adjusted terms), and constituting the...

from Dean Baker New York Times columnist Christopher Caldwell devoted his Thanksgiving piece to describing the German sociologist Wolfgang Streeck’s views on capitalism and democracy.  I have not read much of Streeck’s work, but as recounted by Caldwell, he gets many of the basic facts about the U.S. economy badly wrong. According to Caldwell’s account, capitalists were willing to sacrifice profits in the decades after World War II for stability. This meant less dynamism but allowed...

The ´natural rate of unemployment´, also called ´Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment´ (NAIRU) or ´Non-Accelerating Wage Rate of Unemployment´ (NAWRU), is as, on this blog, Lars Syll states (here and here), a dangerous tool. According to NAIRU/NAWRU theory, a) When unemployment falls below a certain threshold, an inexorable increase in inflation will start. This is simply not true, considering the facts. b) As NAIRU/NAWRU theory is untrue, it can´t be measured by...