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Critique of Pure Barbell: March 2016
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Critique of Pure Barbell. Of Barbell sports and Philosophy (or: the World's less read blog). Thursday, March 10, 2016. Epistemology and politics (or lack thereof). Not recycling, and the evil system is taking advantage of your lack of sophistication in precisely that area. How come? I’ll use the remainder of this post to try to explain. To make the subject easier to grasp, lets start with a simplified, somewhat metaphoric model. Assume this is all there is to know, aka “the world”:. Unfortunately, the po...
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Critique of Pure Barbell: We are being lied to! (oh, boy, are we!)
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Critique of Pure Barbell. Of Barbell sports and Philosophy (or: the World's less read blog). Thursday, December 22, 2016. We are being lied to! Oh, boy, are we! Let’s begin giving credit where credit is due, with the proverbial image that is worth a thousand words:. So let’s do our part today by reviewing a somewhat schematic and summarized list of the lies we are almost daily being told:. Lie # 1: thanks to our social system (capitalism) we are growing richer every day. Pretty impressive, uh? Part of th...
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Critique of Pure Barbell: The shortcomings of Economics II (interlude)
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Critique of Pure Barbell. Of Barbell sports and Philosophy (or: the World's less read blog). Wednesday, December 14, 2016. The shortcomings of Economics II (interlude). YE: Good morning, Mr. Oh, I was told to ask you for some help in my new assignment. YE: Well, I have to calculate the diameter and the thickness of the pipes that go into the boiler of a new combined cycle power plant that we are designing. OH: Now that’s a honorable and exciting task, isn’t it? And a serious one to boot! Make the pipes t...
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Critique of Pure Barbell: The shortcomings of Economics (and yes, it is once more about Trump…)
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Critique of Pure Barbell. Of Barbell sports and Philosophy (or: the World's less read blog). Wednesday, December 7, 2016. The shortcomings of Economics (and yes, it is once more about Trump…). Now, when I say “a new look” I don’t mean “let’s read a couple Wikipedia articles, peruse some issues of The Economist. And to Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy. Nothing to do with how Economics has evolved and how it is taught in modern schools! And (more recently) the Tableau Économique. By Quesnay...
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Critique of Pure Barbell: December 2016
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Critique of Pure Barbell. Of Barbell sports and Philosophy (or: the World's less read blog). Thursday, December 22, 2016. We are being lied to! Oh, boy, are we! Let’s begin giving credit where credit is due, with the proverbial image that is worth a thousand words:. So let’s do our part today by reviewing a somewhat schematic and summarized list of the lies we are almost daily being told:. Lie # 1: thanks to our social system (capitalism) we are growing richer every day. Pretty impressive, uh? Part of th...
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Monetary transmission mechanisms – who cares? (Me actually) | principlesandinterest
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Finance, Money, Policy and Principles. Monetary transmission mechanisms who cares? June 23, 2014. June 23, 2014. Frances Coppola and Giles Wilkes have been having a good-spirited row about Hobbits, Dragons and the importance (or otherwise) of understanding the monetary transmission mechanism. You can see their blogs here. Approach to monetary policy). So far, so what? Well, the Bank of England has told us that it is getting ready to think about the question pertaining to the nature of unwinding at least ...
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Tag Archives: Amartya Sen. Markets and Famine: Amartya Sen is not the last word! Whether markets help cause or exacerbate famines is one of the great questions of political economy. Cormac Ó Gráda’s recent book Eating People is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, its Past, and its Future, along with his earlier volume, Famine: A Short … Continue reading →. Bengal famine of 1943. Ideology and Human Development. How real are Cuba’s accomplishments in health and education since the revolution? Plant breeding...
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Ricardo Hausmann | pseudoerasmus
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Tag Archives: Ricardo Hausmann. Educational Romanticism and Economic Development. An elaboration on Ricardo Hausmann’s article “The Education Myth” arguing that education is an overrated tool of economic development. This post also responds to a criticism of Hausmann’s views which appeared at the Spanish group blog Politikon; and also discusses whether developing … Continue reading →. Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton: A Reductionist Summary. Fascism was not left-wing! Follow Blog via Email. Economic Histo...
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Branko Milanović - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it. By removing promotional content. And inappropriate external links. And by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. Learn how and when to remove this template message. Born October 24, 1953) is a Serbian-American. And an affiliated senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study. He was formerly lead economist in the World Bank. S research department,.