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from Lars Syll Using simplifying tractability or heuristic assumptions — rational expectations, common knowledge, representative agents, linearity, additivity, ergodicity, and so forth — does not exempt economists from having to justify their modelling choices, even if such assumptions are necessary for them to ‘manipulate’ their models or produce ‘rigorous’ and ‘precise’ predic...

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from Dean Baker Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar payday from the IPO of SpaceX has hugely amplified the public’s focus on extreme wealth inequality. Musk’s economic and political power is certainly something to be concerned about, but wealth can be a misleading focus. I have raised this point before; wealth can be a misleading measure on both […]

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from Paul Krugman’s blog On Sunday Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday with a cage match on the White House lawn. The match and the events that surrounded it — especially the press conference with UFC fighters, shown above, held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — were a desecration of America’s capital, whose […]

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from Luigi Capoani, Margarita Shnaider, and Martina Griseri and current issue of RWER Since entropy governs the degradation of energy and matter in all physical and biological processes, the economy – like any living system – must operate within the constraints of finite energy and material resources. Rather than presenting new empirical results or applied […]

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