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@larspsyll ‘Theoretical cherrypicking’ in economics

‘Theoretical cherrypicking’ in economics

The proposition that theoretical models are necessary for understanding our economic system does not imply that https://t.co/C9KRG4iE9V

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Former Students Plan to Ignore Loan Repayments When Pause Ends

Former Students Plan to Ignore Loan Repayments When Pause Ends, Newsweek, Khaleda Rahman 

“I will not give them one cent!” https://t.co/o0SHcGZrgd

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Open Thread June 24, 2023 SCOTUS and Standing

If you have not noticed it, SCOTUS has been pushing back on states filing frivolous suits to which no harm has been done to them. They file these for https://t.co/b7S763JnX3

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@larspsyll Kathleen Stock and the woke cancel culture that threatens our universities

Kathleen Stock and the woke cancel culture that threatens our universities

Philosophy professor Kathleen Stock has been https://t.co/RGT3crb5i6

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@mikenorman Russia becomes No.1 export destination for Chinese-made automobiles — Global Times
 Not only is import substitution happening but also substitution of exporters of "unfriendly" countries with exporters of "friendly" countries.ECNS https://t.co/9pJ5c6ZAe4

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@JohnQuiggin Dutton wants Australia to join the “nuclear renaissance”

– but this dream has failed before. My latest in The Conversation over the fold

Last week, opposition leader Peter Dutton called for Australia to join what he https://t.co/IVCogcZWfN

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@mikenorman Bidenomics
Now that CPI/PPI are collapsing YoY the GOP is just going to pound Brandon on the Art degree moron figure of speech "inflation!"  based on price comparisons from when he took over in Jan 2021....   easy peasy…We now have https://t.co/o5l5RGPvgA

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@larspsyll Slavoj Žižek — discursive sausage for the uneducated

Slavoj Žižek — discursive sausage for the uneducated

As a young philosophy student in the United States in the early 1990s, I must https://t.co/tBY38tnFRi

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New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for July 3 – 7

Weekly Indicators for July 3 – 7 at Seeking Alpha

 – by New Deal democrat

My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha.

A https://t.co/3EwKrU4G1g

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Pharma and Chamber of Commerce Suing to Stop Drug Negotiations

Big business organization in the form of the Chamber of Commerce and a Phamaceutical company are joining together and taking on the https://t.co/9EtxLECZ6Q

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US recession fears ease: surprisingly strong data on housing, consumer confidence, labor market

Fed Chair Jerome Powell already warned he “may” have two more planned Fed rate increases in the https://t.co/49VdQHMUfu

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@larspsyll The façade of precision in mainstream economics
from Lars Syll
[Jevons] is a man of some ability, but he seems to me to have a mania for encumbering questions with useless complications, and with a notation implying the existence of https://t.co/YY7ZetbP2t

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@larspsyll The façade of precision in mainstream economics

The façade of precision in mainstream economics

[Jevons] is a man of some ability, but he seems to me to have a mania for encumbering questions with https://t.co/WsuTv4gW09

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@mikenorman William Mitchell — Japan’s monetary policy experiment is working
Last week – RBA wants to destroy the livelihoods of 140,000 Australian workers – a shocking indictment of a failed state (June 22, 2023) – I wrote about the sense https://t.co/mqBzXaXn9s

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@larspsyll Central fallacies of modern economics

Central fallacies of modern economics

To criticise/oppose the current mathematical modelling emphasis is to adopt an antiscience stance.
It is not. Mathematics https://t.co/GeeNhaG1Dv

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@mikenorman China’s demographic doomsayers cite the wrong data — David P. Goldman
Education plus technology = increased productivity.Goldman shows how Krugman was wrong about the future of the Asian Tiger in the 90s. Those who lived through the https://t.co/hxXsoa2bbs

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Leontief On Reswitching

An old puzzle is why do those who build on Leontief's empirical work not make more of Sraffa?
And why do those who build on Sraffa's theory not interact more with those building on Leontief?

Sraffa implicitly https://t.co/z7Pvmb1C7a

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@StavMavroudeas «Το Πανεπιστήμιο που χτίζουν δεν μας χωρά. Για τη μόρφωση και την εκπαίδευση για όλους στην υπηρεσία της εργαζόμενης https://t.co/w6pAdPE93V

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Are western democracies and pluralism in economics in danger?
from Maria Alejandra Madi

Regarding Western democracies, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two Harvard scholars, think that the answer is yes. They base their answer on https://t.co/MXR8k5hhHG

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Student Loan Debt, AI, and the Extinction of the American Middle Class

As American Jews, at what point do we stop to assess the collateral damage that the coalescence of crippling student loan debt https://t.co/O2JQw1HI5V