Stop closing your model
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world, who discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight—as the only…
Travis Fast
Rppe.org under attack
For those trying to access RPPE.ORG the site has been temporarily suspended do to an attack. It appears the attack was directed at the parent host. I knew something was…
Gordon V Jackson: the corporate tax cut myth
Apparently Stephen Gordon is having a hard time figuring out where Andrew Jackson, the chief economist for the CLC, got the bizarre idea that: The argument for corporate income tax…
Migration update: RPPE.ORG is up.
As this blog has migrated over to its own domain and server I will not be accepting any new comments. For those who have made comments over the past couple…
Site migration underway
We have started the process of migrating this wordpress hosted blog to our new ORG domain and independent hosting service. http://rppe.org/ Filed under: Canadian Politics
NGDP targeting: wither monetarism?
Monetarism is like a Zombie: it can be found theoretically wanting, empirically false and technically infeasible but in one form or another it just soldiers on. In some ways the…
RPPE going ORG
We will be transitioning to our own domain name and hosting services over the next couple of weeks thanks to some outside donations. We should have done this earlier. Thanks…
Stimulative austerity bearing fruit in Britain? Not. Nor globally
George Osborne was quick out of the gates with the austerity as stimulus gambit. Which as everybody from myself to Paul Krugman predicted was going to be a flop. Osborne…
Gangster Capitalism: Same as it ever was?
If you are going to read one thing and just one thing on the financial crisis and how it is working itself out you need to read this blog post…
Returns to education: from a sure thing to a trip to vegas
Paul Krugman has pointed out, here and here that the meme that most of the inequality we have been experiencing of late has much to do with differences in educational…
The economy lab, the dark age of free trade theory, and the naive view on natural resources and economic development
Over at the Economy Lab in the Globe which Failed, which itself has gone from bad to worse, one of the economists they keep in their stable has either produced…
New Anti-Mankiw Blog and some alternative introductions to economics
There is a new economics blog on the nets dedicated to an analysis of Mankiw’s blog. Reminds me of the anti-Samuelson text book which served as one of my textbooks…
Republican attack on collective bargaining halted
There is a certain paradox in what just happened in Ohio. Thanks to the provision in some states for direct democracy as opposed to a singular reliance on representative democracy…
The Rebel’s Letter to Mankiw and some thoughts on education in economics
Yesterday I noted that 10 percent of Mankiw’s students walked out of his class to protest what they, rightly believed, to be a heavily biased introduction to economics. I think…
Mankiw’s students walk out
So about ten percent of Mankiw’s students figured out that Mankiw is a neoliberal. Harvard students should have known that by grade six. Better late then never I suppose. Filed…
Profit, wage, NDP, and tax revenue growth in Newfoundland and Labrador
Although I covered it off in my rebuttal to the Minister of Finance Thomas Marshall in the last post I thought maybe a graphic would be a more compelling way…
A without prejudice rejoinder to the Minister of Finance
On Wednesday of last week the Minister of Finance for Newfoundland and Labrador Thomas Marshall was interviewed by CBC Central Morning about a report I did for the Newfoundland and…
The 1 % responds: We all have lobbyists!
As the CBC bends over backwards to be fair and balanced they gave the top 1% the opportunity to respond to the Occupy Movement. I will not bother with the…
Interview on CBC Central Morning
CBC Radio Central Newfoundland Morning aired an interview they did with me about inequality and the future of development in Newfoundland and Labrador. The pod cast can be found here.…
Interview on CBC Central Morning
CBC Radio Central Newfoundland Morning aired an interview they did with me about inequality and the future of development in Newfoundland and Labrador. The pod cast can be found here.…