This is a good recital by the GAO on Food Prices, its trends, factors affecting it, and how the government plays a role in it. It covers quite a bit of territory on costs and prices pre-2021 and 2021 to 2022. It was those two years when Covid was having an impact on the nation and globally. The impact came in getting food to market, processing it, and making it available. If have some time to review this report, I believe you will come away with...

The Republican Party has demonstrated it’s subservience to Donald Trump and rejection of policy making as such. In a sane country, this would doom the party to a very long period in opposition, but I am a citizen of the country I have not the country I want. I think the issues are well known, but I will attempt a brief review. First, while most Republicans in Congress agree that the US should aid Ukraine, some side with Putin. More importantly,...

Blog A lost decade for home insulation We installed over 2m insulation measures in our homes in 2012. For the last few years, it's been just a tenth of this. By Christian Jaccarini 06 February 2024 We’re in the midst of yet another winter where...

I’ll be presenting a talk at the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society conference. Title Irresistible Force* meets Immovable Object** * Massive expansion in production of low-cost solar PV ** Entrenched resistance to deployment. Shorter JQ: Irresistible force will win in the end Presentation is here Share this:Like Loading...

The following sounds familiar, yes? Not much has changed since the Civil War. Still the same attitude, we belong but only on our terms. The Democrats of the South, now today’s Republicans starve for some type of leadership and glommed on to trump. What a compliment to trump that someone needed him and adored him. The murder of Lincoln was unfortunate. Southerners again had Black Americans under their thumb regardless of constitutional amendments...

Unleashing Passion: Shattering Science's Paradigms

Nytt finanspolitiskt ramverk? Ja tack! Förhållandet mellan ränta och BNP:s tillväxttakt är central för hur man ska se på den offentliga förmögenhets- och skuldutvecklingen. En positiv ränte-tillväxtdifferens innebär att det finns en intertemporal målkonflikt: ett lägre primärt finansiellt sparande (högre offentliga utgifter i förhållande till offentliga intäkter) idag måste betalas med högre primärt sparande (lägre offentliga utgifter iförhållande till...

Money's Influence on Government Policy

from Lars Syll To achieve explanatory success, a theory should, minimally, satisfy two criteria: it should have determinate implications for behavior, and the implied behavior should be what we actually observe. These are necessary conditions, not sufficient ones. Rational-choice theory often fails on both counts. The theory may be indeterminate, and people may be irrational. In what was perhaps the first sustained criticism of the theory, Keynes emphasized indeterminacy, notably because...

Το ηλεκτρονικό βιβλίο μου «Η Πολιτική Οικονομία της Οικονομικής Πολιτικής» αναρτήθηκε στο αποθετήριο του ΚΑΛΛΙΠΟΣ. Το πόνημα αυτό προτείνει μία ανάλυση της ίδρυσης, της συγκρότησης και της μετέπειτα εξέλιξης του γνωστικού αντικειμένου της Οικονομικής Πολιτικής από την σκοπιά της Μαρξιστικής Πολιτικής Οικονομίας. Γι’ αυτό διαφέρει από τις κυρίαρχες αναλύσεις από την σκοπιά των Οικονομικών που περιορίζονται σε ατομικιστική θεώρηση του αντικειμένου αυτού καθώς και σε μία ανάλυση των...