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Showing posts with label markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label markets. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

My new podcast episode is out.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Diane Coyle — Markets, states and humans

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I was eager to read Paul De Grauwe’s The Limits of the Market because I profoundly agree with its premise that the false dichotomy between ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Chris Dillow — Capitalism vs markets

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One thing that irritates me is the tendency of many on the right to conflate capitalism and markets.   They are, in fact, two different t...
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Saturday, November 21, 2015

What Can We Really Know About the Future of Stock Prices? — Lynn Parramore interviews Roman Frydman

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Lynn Parramore interviews Roman Frydman. The Huffington Post What Can We Really Know About the Future of Stock Prices? Lynn Parramore ...
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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Steve Keen — Economists Prove That Capitalism Is Unnecessary

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Actually they’ve done no such thing. But they do effectively assume that it’s unnecessary all the time... Hayek’s main target here were s...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Chris Dillow — Markets need Marxism

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All this poses the question. Why, then, haven't we seen state help to create what Robert Shiller has called financial democracy? It...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

John Carney — Financial Stress Index Hits Scary Level

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Assuming this [previous Fed action] isn't a completely spurious correlation, the recent rise in financial stress may mean that we sho...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

John Aziz — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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John doesn't mention Tepper, but the profile fits. That's three in agreement, Mike, John, and me. Is Tepper talking his book, or doe...
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Lars P. Syll — Robert Lucas and the intellectual collapse of freshwater economics

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Robert Lucas is at is again. The invisible hand will return the economy to equilibrium at full employment to the degree that it is allowed...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Miles Kimball — Steven Pinker on How the Free Market Makes Us Uneasy

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As far as I can see, this takes Market Pricing out of the realm of human nature, and there seem to be no naturally developing thoughts or e...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

"Invasion of the Straw Men"

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commentary by Roger Erickson Italian Economy Contracts for Fourth Straight Quarter This is just sad. Markets are already pricing in conti...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Brenda Rosser — The assumption that markets are 'natural'

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On David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years and its implications for economics. It speaks to some the recent controversy in the comm...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Markets — On the good, the bad, and the ugly

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...Markets are tools that, relative to the alternatives, happen to have great strengths with respect to incentives, efficiency, and innovat...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Peter Cooper — On the Market Evaluation of Productiveness

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This is a brief follow-up to a couple of previous posts (here and here) that concern the market evaluation of social productiveness. In par...
Sunday, December 4, 2011

Noah Smith — Harrison & Kreps 1978: The power of irrational expectations

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So what does that say about macro? Since the late 70s, nearly all of the models used by macroeconomists have been "rational expectati...