The Association for Heterodox Economics welcomes student initiatives for fundamental reform of the economics curriculum, as do our post-Keynesian colleagues (Letters, 19 November). Heterodox economists, drawing on a range of theorists, including Keynes, Marx, Minsky and others, have consistently argued for greater pluralism in both economics curricula and economics research evaluation. We recognise the clear benefits of pluralism in economics: it encourages, by exposing them to alternative perspectives, the development of students’ critical thinking and judgment. Read more…
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Technological Change and Strategic Sabotage:
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Christopher Mouré 26
Do copyrights and paywalls on academic journals violate the US Constitution?
Spencer Graves 56
Mainstream economics – the poverty of fictional storytelling
Lars P. Syll 61
Why do economists persist in using false theories?
Asad Zaman 84
Revisiting the Principles of Economics through Disney
Junaid Jahangir 89
On the Employer-Employee Relationship
David Ellerman 111
Why is yield-curve inversion such a good predictor of recession?
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Book Review: Thomas Picketty, A Brief History of Equality
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Yes, economics has a problem with women
from Julie Nelson
Yes, economics has a problem with women. In the news recently we’ve heard about the study of the Economics Job Market Rumors (EJMR) on-line forum. Student researcher Alice H. Wu found that posts about women were far more likely to contain words about their personal and physical issues (including “hot,” “lesbian,” “cute,” and “raped” ) than posts about men, which tended to focus more on academic and professional topics. As a woman who has been in the profession for over three decades, however, this is hardly news.
Dismissive treat of women, and of issues that impact women more than men, comes not only from the sorts of immature cowards who vent anonymously on EJMR, but even from men who probably don’t think of themselves as sexist. And because going along with professional fashion may be necessary for advancement, women economists also sometimes play along with the dominant view.
Consider a few other cases I’ve noticed during my thirty years in the profession: Read more…
Financial Times and Wall Street Journal look at parallel currency solution for Greece
Today both the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal are talking about the increasing possibility of a parallel currency solution for Greece. Primary sources of this idea are four papers from the Real-World Economics Review:
Trond Andresen and Robert W. Parenteau, “A program proposal for creating a complementary currency in Greece”, real-world economics review, issue no. 71, 29 May 2015, pp. 2-10, http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue71/AndresenParenteau71.pdf
Alan Harvey, “Updated proposal for a complementary currency for Greece (with response to critics)”, real-world economics review, issue no. 71, 29 May 2015, pp. 12-18, http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue71/Harvey71.pdf
Claude Hillinger, “From TREXIT to GREXIT? – Quo vadis hellas?”, real-world economics review, issue no. 70, 20 Feb 2015, pp. 161-163, http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue70/Hillinger70.pdf
Trond Andresen, (2013). Improved Macroeconomic Control with Electronic Money and Modern Monetary Theory, real-world economics review, issue 63, http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue63/whole63.pdf
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Reading Piketty in Athens
from Richard Parker
I have been reading Thomas Piketty this past week in Athens, where I came back to assess how Greece is faring half a decade after its economy imploded, initially as a consequence of its own ills and then – in an act of monumental malpractice by Germany, the ECB, and the IMF – the cure imposed.[1]
Signs of recovery are few.
It is hot here, as Mediterranean summers always are – but as thick as the heat is, an air of solemnity and defeat lies far more thickly over this concrete-gray capital and its now concrete-gray people, for whom what we know as the Great Recession has been their Great Depression, where the GDP has contracted 40% in five years and more than a quarter of its workforce can find no paid employment.
Four years ago, tens of thousands of Greeks would turn up regularly, week after week, at Syntagma Square in the heart of Athens to protest, again and again, the terms of the European-and-IMF-designed austerity regime that was the price Greece was being made to pay for loans meant to keep its government and economy afloat.
The streets lack protestors now, filled instead by tourists (more than 20 million visitors are expected this year, nearly two tourists for every Greek citizen) but also with drunks, junkies, and beggars out in alarming numbers of their own. Syntagma Square – jammed when I was here in 2011 with the tents and makeshift lean-tos of young protestors – has been scrubbed clean, the grass and flowers replanted, and new marble steps and benches replacing the stonework that had been chipped and broken to provide rocks to hurl at riot police.[2]
But cross the street from Syntagma Square and walk into the five-star Hotel Grande Bretagne and you suddenly encounter Read more…
We need economic theories fit for the real world
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The Post-Crash Economics Society at Manchester University. Photograph: Jon Super for the Guardian
Judea Pearl on regression and causation
from Lars Syll
Judea Pearl was kind enough to send yours truly his article (co-authored with Bryant Chen) Regression and causation: a critical examination of six econometrics textbooks a while ago. It has now been published in real-world economics review issue no. 65.
The article addresses two very important questions in the teaching of modern econometrics and its different textbooks – how is causality treated in general, and more specifically, to what extent they use a distinct causal notation. Read more…
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1. Germany’s beggar-thy-neighbour wages policy and 2. Shrinking the financial sector to its 1970s pre-bubble size
The above and related issues arise in two papers in the current issue 59 of the Real-World Economics Review.
Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez-Caldentey, “The euro imbalances and financial deregulation: A post-Keynesian interpretation of the European debt crisis” http://paecon.net/PAEReview/issue59/VernengoPerez59.pdf
and
Robin Pope, “Public debt tipping point studies ignore how exchange rate changes may create a financial meltdown” (co-author Reinhard Selten) http://paecon.net/PAEReview/issue59/PopeSelten59.pdf
Vernengo, Pérez-Caldentey and Pope all agree on the need for:
(i) fiscal stimulus while the private sector deleverages,
(ii) inter-country fiscal transfers to losers in a global downturn in order to reduce contagious adverse aggregate demand effects,
(iii) re-regulation of the financial sector to aid in averting future financial bubbles, and
(iv) an absolute rise in German wages – though for different reasons.
Robin Pope: in order to try to curb the dramatic increase in inequality in Germany between the upper echelon and the average German worker that has occurred over the past decade, an increase that damages democracy and damps internal demand.
Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez-Caldentey: in order to reverse the dramatic narrowing of the gap between wages in Germany and non-core countries that occurred over the past decade, a reversal that they believe would eliminate Germany’s dramatically increased export surplus to non-core countries that occurred over this same decade plus.
On where the three disagree, see their extremely interesting exchange below, and do, if inclined, append your comments. Read more…
Forbes’ update on the state of plutonomy or “democracy for the few”
from Edward Fullbrook
The current Forbes, the bi-weekly of The One Percent, features an update on the current state of what it, like Citigroup, calls plutonomy. Also called by its insiders “democracy for the few”, this is the basic economic-political reality of our time, which one-percenters chat about daily and which the rest of us generally pretend doesn’t exist. Skeptics of the analysis of plutonomy offered in “The Political Economy of Bubbles” in the current issue of RWER are encouraged to read Forbes’ plutonomy update. Below is a taster.
The new “us versus them” is not like the racism of colonial times. This is starkly different. It’s the 99% versus the 1%, . . . Read more…
RWER issue 57: Hazel Henderson
From rigged carbon markets to investing in green growth
Hazel Henderson
Abstract
Reviews failure of global carbon trading underKyotoand reasons why alternatives emerged. Assesses prospects for climate policies beyondKyotoand covers shifts toward green growth in governments and private sector investments.
The Kyoto Protocol and its global carbon emission-trading scheme expire in 2012. The World Bank in State and Trends of the Carbon Market found that the market declined in 2010 and is at a crossroads, due to loss of political momentum. Read more…
RWER issue 56: Egmont Kakarot Handtke
Scrap the lot and start again
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke [Germany]
Abstract: In the wake of the recent financial crisis heterodox economists have taken up a time-honored refrain and proposed to abandon the axiomatic method. The present paper argues that this proposal is self-defeating.
An economic crisis is always a crisis of economic theory – of mainstream economics, to be sure – and the latest financial crisis is no exception. This is the day of reckoning for the heterodox camp and, of course, rightly so for quite different reasons. Read more…
RWER issue 56: George DeMartino
The economist as social engineer: Maxi-max decision, utopia and the need for professional economic ethics*
George DeMartino [University of Denver, USA]Introduction
The economics profession has attracted a good bit of attention lately due to revelations regarding the failure of influential economists to disclose potential conflicts of interest when serving in the role of public intellectual. For this we are indebted to filmmaker Charles Ferguson, whose film “Inside Job” ought to serve as a wake-up call to a profession that has suppressed its ethical obligations for over a century. Even worse, Read more…
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