Crashes, Crises, Coaching?
May 17, 2023
Harold James— Economics is not homogenous, especially at the moment. Orthodoxy is challenged, heterodoxy is in, there are calls for new textbooks and New Economic Thinking. Each different style of… READ MORE
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Accidental Conflict: A Conversation with Stephen Roach
November 29, 2022
In Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives, Stephen Roach discusses the misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China. Based on a hard-hitting analysis of… READ MORE
“Digging Europe’s Grave:” Thomas Piketty on Franco-German Tax Policy
November 16, 2022
Thomas Piketty— To love Europe is to want to change it. The French and German governments which have been in power for the past ten years claim to be Europhiles,… READ MORE
Mançur Olson on Oligopoly and Social Norms
September 20, 2022
Mançur Lloyd Olson Jr.— At least after they reach a certain point, distributional coalitions have an incentive to be exclusive. In the case of collusive oligopolists or others that operate… READ MORE
The Russia-Ukraine Crisis: A Reading List
February 25, 2022
To better understand the Russia-Ukraine crisis, we have put together a list of the most relevant books that shed light on the history, socio-economic and political relations of these two… READ MORE
Can We Learn from the Experiences of Foreign Countries?
September 21, 2021
Masaaki Shirakawa— Currently, overnight interbank interest rates in many developed economies are zero or slightly negative, and long-term interest rates are also extremely low. Did policymakers and economists expect it… READ MORE
Causal Inference
May 24, 2021
Scott Cunningham— Certain presentations of causal inference methodologies have sometimes been described as atheoretical, but in my opinion, while some practitioners seem comfortable flying blind, the actual methods employed in… READ MORE
What’s Wrong With Economics?
April 29, 2021
Robert Skidelsky— The need for economists to think about economics became apparent after the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Few economists predicted the crash; more damningly, few envisaged the possibility… READ MORE
Glenn Beck and the Resurgence of the Austrian School
February 9, 2021
Janek Wasserman— Americans searching Amazon’s best-seller list in June 2010 would have encountered a surprising title at the top, above the likes of books by Stieg Larsson, George W. Bush,… READ MORE
Myth: Shareholder Primacy Is Better for Investors
December 23, 2020
Christopher Marquis— In 2012, the late Lynn Stout, a renowned legal scholar at Cornell Law School, published The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the… READ MORE
“I Create My Own Space”: A Conversation about Fierceness