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Tag Archives: economics
Apr 28 2013
Book Review: The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years
Leave a commentTweet The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It aims to … Continue reading
Posted by: April 28, 2013
Tagged with: economic theory, economics, History of Ideas, Lawrence White
Apr 23 2013
Solving Europe’s fiscal problems will require a new approach to economic governance
Leave a commentTweet Robert D. Atkinson argues that Europe faces a quandary: the difficult fiscal straits most European nations face precludes “Keynesian” stimulus policies to spur demand. Yet austerity is a recipe for stagnation, even decline. But without austerity, budget deficits threaten the trust … Continue reading
Posted by: April 23, 2013
Tagged with: austerity, economics, Europe, Innovation
Feb 9 2013
EasyCouncils, Green Shoots and Radical Budgets: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Warren Morgan is concerned about Barnet’s ‘EasyCouncil’ model and recent claims that it should be emulated elsewhere. Alex Massie suggests that economic circumstances in the UK are healthier than is generally claimed. Rushanara Ali argues that the UK needs … Continue reading
Posted by: February 9, 2013
Tagged with: easycouncil, economics, Osborne, renting
Nov 18 2012
Book Review: The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics
Leave a commentTweet In his latest book, French economist Daniel Cohen shows that violence, rather than peace, has been the historical accompaniment to prosperity. Peace in Europe came only after the barbaric wars of the twentieth century, not as the outcome of economic growth. Cohen goes … Continue reading
Posted by: November 18, 2012
Tagged with: alex moore, daniel cohen, dismal science, economics
Oct 27 2012
Using Google to gauge impact: the Nobel Prize in Economics
Leave a commentTweet Winning a Nobel Prize really is the ultimate demonstration of academic impact, but why would the public seem more interested in one of two joint winners? Rebecca Mann traces the public’s desire for information on Roth and Shapley, this year’s winners … Continue reading
Posted by: October 27, 2012
Tagged with: economics, Impact, Nobel Prize, Rebecca Mann, Roth and Shapley
Oct 7 2012
Book Review: The Money Trap: Escaping the Grip of Global Finance
Leave a commentTweet The Money Trap discusses how governments have failed to understand the roots of the rolling crisis and recession of 2007-12 and argue that these roots lie in the interaction of an elastic credit supply, dysfunctional banking systems and an unreformed … Continue reading
Posted by: October 7, 2012
Tagged with: economics, Europe, financial crisis, money
Sep 9 2012
Book Review: Economics After The Crisis: Objectives and Means
Leave a commentTweet In Economics After the Crisis, Adair Turner writes that the crisis of 2008-2009 should prompt a wide set of challenges to economic and political assumptions and to economic theory. Turner argues that the faults of theory and policy that led to the … Continue reading
Posted by: September 9, 2012
Tagged with: Bank of England, Banks, economic theory, economics, economy, financial crisis, recession
Aug 31 2012
Economics in denial, worrying about grade deflation and some extraordinary excuses: Top 5 blogs you might have missed this week
Leave a commentTweet Howard Davies at Social Europe discusses how the disciplines of economics and finance may become more useful in explaining the world. The Economist charts the fall of net migration under the coalition and wonders if this marks a sudden and big change … Continue reading
Posted by: August 31, 2012
Tagged with: economics, GCSE, immigration, schools, wealth tax
