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Showing posts with label Joseph Stiglitz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Stiglitz. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Nobel Laureates — Eliminating Rent Seeking and Tougher Antitrust Enforcement Are Critical to Reducing Inequality

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Eliminating rent seeking and toughening enforcement of antitrust laws are “critical” to reducing rising inequality, said two Nobel Laureate...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

David F. Ruccio — Markets, power, and the distribution of income

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Joseph Stiglitz usefully explains that there’s more than one theory of the distribution of income. One theory, he writes, focuses on compe...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

circuit — Stiglitz on credit creation by banks

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For those who think that Joseph Stiglitz doesn't know that banks actually create credit….   Fictional Reserve Barking Stiglitz on cr...
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Friday, January 8, 2016

Brad DeLong — Future Economists Will Probably Call This Decade the 'Longest Depression'

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Economist Joe Stiglitz warned back in 2010 that the world risked sliding into a "Great Malaise." This week, he followed up on th...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Karl Widerquist — Nobel Laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, Endorses Unconditional Basic Income

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Joseph Stiglitz, during the question and answer session after his talk at the World Summit on Technological Unemployment in New York on Feb...
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Friday, September 18, 2015

David F. Ruccio — The fundamental truth about American economic growth

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  As James Surowiecki explains in his review of Joseph Stiglitz’s most recent books, “the fundamental truth about American economic growth ...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

James Surowiecki — Why the Rich Are So Much Richer

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James Surowiecki reviews Joseph E. Stiglitz's  The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them, Rewriting the Rules ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Kanbur and Stiglitz — Rent Seeking as a Major Driver of Wealth and Income Inequality

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Yves here. This post is wonky but important. While Stiglitz has written regularly about inequality as problematic from an economic perspect...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

Yanis Varoufakis — A New Approach to Eurozone Sovereign Debt – op-ed in Project Syndicate

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The eurozone is unique among currency areas: Its central bank lacks a state to support its decisions, while its member states lack a centra...
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Sunday, August 16, 2015

Letsgetitdone — A Book about Bernie Sanders, Greece, Austerity, and Much More [Free Aug 16 only]

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Here's the link to the Kindle e-book at Amazon. There will be a free promo on August 16, and I have no plans to do another. So, if you...
Monday, August 3, 2015

Greg Palast — The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold

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2001 post by Greg Palast on Joseph Stiglitz on the neoliberal rape and looting of Russia. Raging Bull-Shit The Globalizer Who Came In From...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Conference on the Greek Debt Crisis led by Sen Bernie Sanders

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Conference on the Greek Debt Crisis Rm 902 Hart Senate Office Building Sen. Bernie Sanders will convene a panel of three nationally-known ec...
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Marc Lee — Climate Justice and the Good Life, for Everyone

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If there is one phrase that sums up what's wrong with economics, it is "specious assumptions." The most specious assumption ...
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Monday, May 18, 2015

Sandwichman — Denial, Then and Now: "Is the End of the World at Hand?" "Is the Economic System Self-Adjusting?"

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Of course the economic system is self-adjusting if you model on assumptions that yield this result. The question is the degree to which th...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Stephen Rosenfeld — 37 Ways to Reform the Economy So It’s Not Rigged for the Rich, According to Progressive Economists

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Unpacking "Rewriting the Rules." AlterNet 37 Ways to Reform the Economy So It’s Not Rigged for the Rich, According to Progressiv...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Mike Konczal — The Rules are What Matter for Inequality: Our New Report

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I’m very excited to announce the release of “ Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy ” ( pdf report ), Roosevelt Institute’s new inequ...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Carola Binder — Release of "Rewriting the Rules"

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I have been working with the Roosevelt Institute and Joseph Stiglitz on report called " Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Joseph E. Stiglitz — Europe’s Lapse of Reason

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A voice of reason on a ship of fools. Yes, America mismanaged its economy; but, no, the US did not somehow manage to impose the brunt of...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Branko Milakovic — Some prefer land: Stiglitz on income and wealth inequality

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A couple of days ago I was invited to give comments on Joe Stiglitz’s presentation of a new paper on theoretical models of evolution of wea...
Thursday, August 7, 2014

Lars P. Syll — Rational expectations — the triumph of ideology over science

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Excellent quote by Joseph Stiglitz that you may want to bookmark for future use. Lars P. Syll’s Blog Rational expectations — the triump...