Economy Archive
In its strategy to position itself as the defender of Islam and the champion of the oppressed against Western Crusaders, ISIS has a willing stooge in Donald Trump. No …
When IDEA published Steve Keen’s 2015 Global Economic Outlook in January, its predictions were well outside the consensus. Today, only five months later, the gap has substantially closed, without revising the …
A new study finds that, compared to other social scientists, economists consider themselves elites, smarter than others, not needing to explore outside their discipline, worthy of being listened to first …
As the largest annual gathering of economists in the U.S., and a magnet for media attention, the AEA conference in Boston the first week of January is the perfect …
The Kickitover.org campaign at the American Economics Association meetings in Boston generated heat as well as light. The Washington Post gave good coverage of the aggressive activism, in sessions …