The time is ripe for good economic analysis from a progressive perspective. The Left has tended to have an understandable visceral dislike/distrust of markets. But this has had the effect of ceding ...

The reason the city should seriously consider Cary Moon is it has never had a mayor who really understands economics. And already I must make a few things clear before explaining why this is of great ...

In a classic case of ‘they would say that, wouldn't they?’, economic textbook authors McTaggart, Findlay and Parkin have recently defended economics from the criticism that it failed in not predicting ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Since its inception in 1934, Philosophy of Science, ...

15 February 2008 For the 25 years, the so-called "Washington Consensus" - comprising measures aimed at expanding the role of markets and constraining the role of the state - has dominated economic ...

This paper points out that neo-classical economic theory employs Galilean abstraction — regardless of whether we understand this in realist or anti-realist terms — as much as Physics does. This ...

I spent a couple of days in a TV studio recently, recording a series of short teaching sessions on the basic principles of classical economics and how they apply to investments. Since the idea of God ...

It’s that time of year again – when academic economics, thanks to the Nobel Prize announcements, is thrust into the public gaze. That the economics Nobel is mistitled and has quite a different status ...

Brink Lindsay has a piece on why he opposes a universal basic income that has gotten a lot of attention. His argument draws on paternalism and behavioral economics style arguments about how welfare ...