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Class Bound?
from Peter Radford First, let me re-iterate my core message: Modern democracy emerged only because society was generally prosperous enough to support the social benefits and other forms of risk mitigation required in an industrial economy prone to business cycles The redistribution essential to the establishment of democracy was seen by the more affluent as […]

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Beyond the pretence of ‘Nobel Prize’-winning models
from Lars Syll What does concern me about my discipline, however, is that its current core — by which I mainly mean the so-called dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach — has become so mesmerized with its own internal logic that it has begun to confuse the precision it has achieved about its own world with […]

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Trump’s not so hot economy: China’s growth far outpaces US
from Dean Baker Donald Trump keeps telling us that in his make-believe world the United States has the world’s hottest economy. But that’s not what the data from the real world say. China’s economy was already one-third larger than the US economy when Trump took office. However, the gap has increased substantially over the last […]

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‘Nobel Prize’ models — unsellable and totally useless
from Lars Syll This year’s ‘Nobel Prize’ in economics goes to two American economists for developing micro-founded ‘representative agent’ DSGE models. The Prize Committee writes: This year’s laureates in the economic sciences, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, have developed new macroeconomic models that have significantly improved our ability to implement effective stabilisa...

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No mass exodus — A Wealth Tax won’t make the rich flee
from Lars Syll The debate on a billionaire tax has intensified in recent years as inequality has grown both here at home and around the world. A billionaire tax could generate significant tax revenues that could help finance welfare, schools and major public investments in infrastructure, energy and climate. From a fairness perspective, it is […]

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