Talking about poverty is fine, but…
Talking about poverty is fine and, yes, I am pretty happy with the recent Nobel prize in economic sciences, Angus Deaton. However, I keep on thinking that those who really care about incomeRead More...
Financialisation and the monetary circuit
The article that Malcolm Sawyer and I wrote for the Metroeconomica‘s special issue on Augusto Graziani‘s economic thought is now available online. It is a spinoff of the FESSUD project. We payRead More...
Waterloo-economics
Many of us have always suspected that there was a long-lasting, though intermittent and underground, relationship between economics (or at least some of its theorists) and psychedelia. Think of the Ricardian ‘opium-eater’ ThomasRead More...
Adam Smith and ‘Neoliberalism’
So tomorrow I will be introducing Adam Smith to my students. Interestingly enough, Smith is usually regarded as the founding father of laissez faire in economy policy. No doubt, he was aRead More...
The importance of teaching the History of Economic Thought
The importance of the history of economic thought, i.e. of the study of the historical evolution of different paradigms in economics: that was the topic of my introductory lecture today. Odd thoughRead More...
LUBS Economics Seminar Series
The LUBS economics seminar series is starting soon. Click here to download the PDF schedule.
Matrix reloaded
In 2010, when I opened up my website, Apple was launching the iPad, and the eruption of an Icelandic volcano was generating the blackout of the European flight lines. The Spain wonRead More...
Why Marxianomics?
Of course, the heading is not a coincidence. Although currently I deal mainly with macroeconomics and monetary economics (I guess I could be labelled a ‘post Keynesian‘), Karl Marx is still myRead More...