Showing posts with label neoclassical economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neoclassical economics. Show all posts
13 August 2013

The Entropy Law and the Economic Process

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I am reading Georgescu-Roegen 's mighty work and not at the first time of trying. It is a huge, dense and rich tome, rich in the mann...
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26 April 2012

Keen as Mustard

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I spent some time last week at a very interesting conference in Edinburgh called Just Banking . The conference was addressed by Adam Posen,...
12 July 2011

Elite Syncopations

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For those not familiar with the working of universities this post may seem rather obscure, but in reality it explains one crucial mechanism ...
13 August 2010

Topsy-Turvy: Turning that Well-Worn Graph on its Head

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Here is one for the theorists amongst you - a longer and deliciously academic paper available on request. But for now just enjoy the sense o...
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4 January 2010

Hope Dawns in Disagreement

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Regular readers of this blog will know that a recurring whinge relates to the strict orthodoxy of economics - as taught in universities and ...
1 August 2009

Discounting the Future

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'Discounting’ is a clever wheeze that conventional economics uses to balance utility (its measure of what we want to gain through our ec...
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3 February 2009

Suppertime games

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One of the most depressing aspect of conventional economics is the way it reduces everything to a self-interested trade. Gary Becker, for ex...
27 January 2009

Go Forth and Quantify!

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Having worked at a modern, 'metropolitan' university for six years I have finally started teaching economics. The resistance was mor...
8 July 2008

What is Green Economics?

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I recently consulted the wikipedia entry on Green Economics to discover that it has been eliminated. Somebody has translated it into a forwa...
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