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Increasingly, we have to pay to pay. Directly, but also indirectly. For instance, credit card payments entail borrowing, and debts entail interest payments. It´s well known that interest rates on credit card debts are high (graph 1). At this moment, US rates even are at a historic high. They were roughly as high as US […]


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1.  Sweden’s unequal wealth distribution  Lars Syll, 2025 2. It wasn’t just flawed forecasts, dishonesty has also hurt economists Dean Baker, 2025 3. Economics textbooks — scandalous intellectual dishonesty    Lars Syll, 2025 4. Donald Trump is badly confused: The story of supply and demand Dean Baker, 2025 […]


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from Asad Zaman and WEA Pedagogy Blog This post summarizes the first five chapters (through Chapter 5A) of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Whose Justice? Which Rationality? It is written for economists—especially heterodox economists—because MacIntyre exposes something deeper than “mainstream mistakes.” He shows why modernity has lost the ability to even hear what Plato and Aristotle were ...


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from Dean Baker Meta recently announced that it was sharply cutting back its Metaverse division so that it could put more money into its AI projects. This is after its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spent around $77 billion to build up his Metaverse, which apparently never really caught on with users. On the one hand, this can be […]


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from Lars Syll The intransigence of Econ 101 points to a dark side of economics — namely that the absence of power-speak is by design. Could it be that economics describes the world in a way that purposely keeps the workings of power opaque? History suggests that this idea is not so far-fetched … The […]


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