Time for a Copernican Revolution in Economics
BY DR. STEVE KEEN 2/10/2014 The financial crisis took the vast majority of the economics profession by surprise. Though there were individual mainstream economists—such as Robert Shiller and Joseph...
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What Difference Does a Crisis Make? BY GERALD EPSTEIN 7/10/14 An economic crisis is like an earthquake: it wreaks havoc while opening up massive fissures that allow investigators to peer through the...
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BY UNLEARNING ECONOMICS 07/10/2014 What is the way forward for economics and homo economicus following the financial crisis? To answer this I will consider a debate which is important in theory, yet...
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BY CALUM MITCHELL 14/10/2014 In December 2012, a small group of students dissatisfied with an economics education failing to adequately explain a changing world formed a society to campaign for...
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BY DAVID HOPE 7/09/2015 I started my masters in economics at the London School of Economics in autumn 2008. At the same time, just down the road in Canary Wharf, the world’s media were assembling....
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