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The General Theorist: Goodbye IMF, hello ECB – Christine Lagarde’s track-record

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Blogger The General Theorist wonders whether Christine Lagarde’s patchy performance as managing director of the IMF qualifies her for the trickier role of president of the European Central Bank. “The assumption that Lagarde is a […]

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The Debt Delusion by John Weeks

November 14, 2019 1

Book review by Mathew D. Rose When Ha-Joon Chang exhorted: “We need an economic literacy campaign so people understand the language used by the ruling class”, he was probably thinking of books like John Weeks’ […]

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Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

October 22, 2019 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century.  Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication of the title was that it […]

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