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Issue no. 50,    8 September 2009

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In this issue: 

What is Minsky all about, anyway?          3

Korkut Ertürk and Gökcer Özgür           download pdf

 

The policy implications of the General Theory           16

Geoff Tily            download pdf       

 

Ecological macroeconomics: Consumption, investment, and climate change          34

Jonathan M. Harris         download pdf

 

Peak oil – coming soon but when?          48

Lewis L. Smith           download pdf

  The financial crisis - Part V

   America ’s exhausted paradigm:          52   
   
Thomas I. Palley           download pdf    

 

   It’s that “vision” thing          75

Jan Kregel             download pdf  

  

  Efficient market theory vs. Keynes’s liquidity theory          85

Paul Davidson           download pdf     

Crisis in the heartland: Consequences of the New Wall Street System          101

Peter Gowan             download pdf  

 

How should the collapse of the world financial system affect economics? - Part III

 

It is agreed that the current economic crisis has shown that the standard models of academic economics are seriously wanting. Should the main emphasis of reform be on developing new formal models or to an opening up of economics to methods other than traditional modelling?

            The Dahlem Group on Economic Modeling         download pdf         118         

           

            Tony Lawson          download pdf          122      


Economists and economics: What does the crisis tell us?          132   

Luigi Spaventa           download pdf

 

Mainstream economics and Iceland 's economic collapse          143

Gunnar Tómasson          download pdf   

 

Goodbye, homo economicus          151

Anatole Kaletsky          download pdf

          

Past Contributors, etc.           157

    

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