
@paulkrugman on @ProfSteveKeen’s inability to get even the basics of macroeconomics right but @NZTreasury invited him over anyway
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Thomas Sargent on the conquest of American inflation
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Joan Robinson; type of friend that would make Marx prefer his enemies
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When Marxists are mugged by reality
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Creative Destruction: Technology and Trade
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Bruce Gilley – “African Civilization and the Premature Termination of Colonialism”
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism with Commentary by Paul Bjerk
18 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
17 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Alfred Marshall on worker’s bargaining power and the union wage premium
10 Sep 2019 1 Comment
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Stigler said Alfred Marshall’s greatest contribution was to dynamic analysis
09 Sep 2019 Leave a comment

Sargent is a bit cross with the Romer and Romer narrative of post-war stabilisation
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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From Commentary: The Evolution of Economic Understanding and Postwar Stabilization Policy at
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.203.4565&rep=rep1&type=pdf






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