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Back in 2002, economists Shane Frederick, George Lowenstein, and Ted O’Donoghue found that people generally value the present over the future—something they called a time preference. While this seemed intuitive
When then Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined the Sunrise Movement’s protest in the office of incoming speaker Nancy Pelosi, she catapulted a radical climate policy into public consciousness. Known as
This is the story of Susan Strange and Hyman Minsky, two renegade economists who spent a lifetime warning of a global financial crisis. When it hit in 2008, a decade
By Juan Ianni. Why does mainstream economics recommend the application of Inflation Targeting (IT) regimes? Is it because of its sophistication? Are there other ways of addressing inflation? Perhaps a historical analysis
By Pierre Ortlieb. On June 10th, 2018, Swiss voters participated in a referendum on the very nature of money creation in their small alpine republic. The so-called “Vollgeld Initiative,” or “sovereign
The January blues are a harsh reminder of the value of doing nothing. Bertrand Russell’s wistful paean to the redundancy of work shows that while this radical thinking is not
In analyzing the consequences of Brexit, economists have relied heavily on ‘scenario testing.’ But this tool may not be fit for purpose.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis. Although the crisis is remembered for foreclosures, bank failures and bailouts, many American citizens are still unaware of what caused it.
When Puerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria, the island was ill-equipped to handle the storm that claimed thousands of lives and devastated most of the island’s infrastructure, leaving it
Central banks have not always been independent, inflation targeting bodies, and to treat them as such is to obscure their complex histories and alternative institutional constellations
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