1999 guide designed to get America's youth interested in investing John Kay's "The Truth about Markets" and "Other Peoples' Money" I read as entertaining eye openers about real business, finance and government. His realist observations made for a wittily scathing critique of many of the ills now bundled into neoliberalism. Colliers and Kay's bete noir … Continue reading Individualism bankrupt. Greed dead. Say Collier and Kay.
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Toward the Next Paradigm …
This Sunday November 17th 3pm : GaiaMoney is hosting a meeting of the "Toward the Next Paradigm..." project group in East Oxford. All welcome. Free drinks and nibbles. Please RSVP There are two topics on the agenda: (1) Does Paul Krugman's recently re-publicised self critique on globalization miss the point? (2) How many, if any, theses should launch … Continue reading Toward the Next Paradigm …
Head Scratching Inflation
"Inflation ... has left many observers scratching their heads as to why the current level ... does not match the current state of the real economy ..." said ex ECB board member Sabine Lautenschläger in a recent speech. The Economist discerns "strange new rules", devotes a special report to "The End of Inflation?" and concludes that inflation is … Continue reading Head Scratching Inflation
Head scratching inflation
"Inflation ... has left many observers scratching their heads as to why the current level ... does not match the current state of the real economy ..." said ex ECB board member Sabine Lautenschläger in a recent speech. The Economist discerns "strange new rules", devote a special report to "The End of Inflation?" and concludes that inflation is … Continue reading Head scratching inflation
D Orrell Quantum Economics – critical main-streamers
David Orrell Quantum Economics, 2019, p 238 The penny drops While ... many mainstream economists have continued to make excuses for their epic forecasting miss , not all have been so sanguine . George Akerlof and Robert Shiller wrote in their 2015 Phishing for Phools : ‘ It is truly remarkable that so few economists … Continue reading D Orrell Quantum Economics – critical main-streamers
Toward the Next Paradigm in Economics?
"Toward the Next Paradigm in Economics?" was the banner for a local meeting I recently had to talk about two seminal books: Kate Raworth's "Doughnut Economics" and David Orrell's "Quantum Economics". Four people attended. One had turned up because she knows Kate Raworth as a parent. Their children go to the same school ("Only … Continue reading Toward the Next Paradigm in Economics?
The Queen, Seventeen, Halloween…
Ten years after the 2008 crisis I came across an old Guardian article : Queen finally finds out why no one saw the financial crisis coming Her Majesty gets the answer to her question – four years after she asked it – on a tour of the Bank of England One doesn't normally keep the … Continue reading The Queen, Seventeen, Halloween…