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POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY &ECONOMICS: Assorted posts

• 30 NOV 2010 – Cutting our noses to spite our faces The trouble with austerian logic is that it is grossly illogical. It does not even make sense in terms of the logic of microeconomics, let alone that of macroeconomics.
• 2 DEC 2010 – Antisemitism’s handmaidens I was recently sent a book that warmed my heart and disturbed my soul. It is entitled Antisemitism: Real and imagined: Responses to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to combat antisemitism, edited by Michael Keefer (Waterloo Ontario: The Canadian Charger, 2010). Before I share my thoughts occasioned by reading it, a full disclosure is important:  Continue reading →
• 11 DEC 2010 – Daniel Ellsberg: Wikileaks’ Precursor and Unsung Foe of Neoliberal Economics 
• 21 DEC 2010 – Austerity? What austerity? In defence of Ebenezer Scrooge
• 24 DEC 2010 – From Scrooge’s rehabilitation to Scroogeonomics?
• 28 DEC 2010 – The Joylessness of Happiness Economics Or why looking for happiness is not like looking for gold
• 3 JAN 2011 – They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To! Why even the best post-war analytical economist, Paul Samuelson, ended up a tragic figure
• 5 JAN 20 An exchange with Jerry Goldstein, a retired City of London banker, on economics’ role in bringing about the Crisis
• 29 JAN 2011 – Seismologists, Economists and the Crisis – the podcast. On BBC Radio 4
• 6 APR 2022 – Scapegoating labour: A favourite pastime during a downturn
• 9 APR 2011 – The Trouble with Humans: Why is labour special and especially targeted at a time of crisis- Part A
• 13 APR 2011 – The Trouble with Humans: Why is labour special and especially targeted at a time of crisis- Part B
• 23 APR 2011 – From Places Like Mine and Yours On the progressive potential of small, quasi-autonomous states like Scotland, Ireland, Greece, Portugal etc.
• 2 MAY 2011 – Justice’s ignominious defeat in the shape of Bin Laden’s bullet ridden body
• 5 MAY 2011 – The economists’ instrumental rationality and Osama Bin Laden’s final triumph 
• 16 MAY 2011 – On the Political Economics of Dominic Strauss Kahn’s Political Death
• 6 JUN 2011 – Open letter to Mr George Papandreou, the Greek Prime Minister
• 15 JUN 2011 – Beyond the Crisis: Markets, planning and a utopian vision (inspired by the American National Football League)
• 29 AUG 2011 – CATHARSIS DENIED: The tragedy of 9/11 ten years on
• 8 SEP 2011 – Schauble, Keynes and a shadowy HM Treasury Official Back in 1930, a policy pamphlet was published, one either inspired or even written by John Maynard Keynes. Its title: We Can Conquer Unemployment. We mobilised for war. Let us now mobilise for prosperity! Why is this relevant?
• 24 SEP 2011 – Need a reminder of our era’s political deficit? Here is a glimpse (dating to 1936)
• 14 OCT 2011 – A grim assessment of Europe’s Social Democratic Parties: video
• 29 OCT 2011 – CDS buyers, Greek debt restructuring, feminists and Marx: Odd bedfellows in the era of the euro crisis
• 15 DEC 2011 – NEVER BAILED OUT: Europe’s ants and grasshoppers revisited
• 8 JAN 2012 – Complexity Fetishism, the Euro Crisis and a worthy challenge for 2012: Part A
• 20 JAN 2012 – Complexity Fetishism, the Euro Crisis and a worthy challenge for 2012: Part B: The lure of naive models in the era of financialisation
• 28 FEB 2012 – On the Political Economy of Europe’s Bailouts: The curious bargain of Greece’s Libertarians
• 1 MAR 2012 – An interview with Naked Capitalism’s Phil Pilkington on our book ‘Modern Political Economics’ – Part A
• 8 MAR 2012 – An interview with Naked Capitalism’s Phil Pilkington on the state of economics (and our Modern Political Economics): Part B
• 14 MAR 2012 – Toward an escape from pseudo-Keynesianism: Obserwator Finansowy
• 28 MAR 2012 – Keynesian Legacies neither Europe nor Keynes deserved: A critique of New and ISLM Keynesians in the context of Europe’s Crisis
• 3 APR 2012 – So, what is neoclassical economics (and what is not)?
• 4 APR 2012 – On Keynes, Marx and the value of models at a time of Crisis: A reply to David Laibman
• 28 MAY 2012 – Keynesian legacies neither Europe nor Keynes deserved: A critique of ISLM and New Keynesians in the context of Europe’s Crisis
• 26 SEP 2012 – Are digital currencies the future?
• 13 JAN 2013 – Up from Here? Panel discussion on ‘The Impediments to Recovery’ with K. Arrow, R. Gordon, E. Laursen and Y. Varoufakis
• 8 JAN 2013 – Toward an evolutionary model of the Eurozone Crisis: Ayers Scholar address, ASSA, San Diego
• 30 JAN 2013 – In memory of Frank Hahn, a rare jewell of a neoclassical economist
• 5 FEB 2013 – The neoclassical economist as playwright
• 14 FEB 2013 – “Real lessons from virtual worlds”, article by Amie Tsang in the Financial Times
• 19 FEB 2013 – Economic illiteracy in the service of economic misanthropy: An Econ 101 reminder of the meaning of the multiplier for austerians
• 5 MAR 2013 – From Contagion to Incoherence: Toward a model of the unfolding Eurozone Crisis
• 22 APR 2013 – Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money
• 27 JUL 2013 – Guilt, debt and interest rates: A comment on double moral standards
• 27 JUL 2013 – Don’t mention the war? A reader’s objection to Stuart Holland’s piece, with a rejoinder
• 15 SEPT 2013 – Why asymmetrical monetary unions are bound to fail (unless they feature an effective, extra-market surplus recycling mechanism)
• 12 OCT 2013 – Professor Fama’s toxic ‘Nobel’ Prize winning theory explained
• 7th NOV 2013 – Ponzi Austerity: A defintion and an example
• 14th NOV 2013 – Democracy: Its trials and tribulations in the face of financialisation, crisis and technological change
• 15 NOV 2013 – Being Greek and an Economist while Greece Burns: An intimate account – MGSA 2013 Keynote
• 6 JAN 2014 – Seven economic schools of thought on the economics of Christmas presents – a cheeky post with which to wish readers a happy 2014
• 21 FEB 2014 – Can the Internet democratise capitalism? 
• 14 MAR 2014 – Tony Benn, in memoriam
• 21 MAR 2014 – How do the powerful get the idea that they ‘deserve’ more? Lessons from the… laboratory
• 27 MAR 2014 – Austerity – a televised debate (by the Institute of World Affairs) on its logic and discontents featuring J.K. Galbraith, Jeff Sommers and Yanis Varoufakis
• 31 MAR 2014 – Reaching For Our Revolvers: How a United Europe defused its culture and divided its people
• 10 APR 2014 – THINK BIG, THINK BOLD: Toward a Pan-European, Green New Deal
• 8 OCT 2014 – Egalitarianism’s Latest Foe: a critical review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
• 7 NOV 2014 – The Aesthetics of Money after the Gold Standard – video