Wednesday, June 29, 2022

A short essay on the differences between Marx and Keynes

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  T his short piece is stimulated by my recent reading of t he French translation of Joan Robinson’s 1942 Essay on Marxian Economics publis...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

What if Putin’s true goals are different?

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  By any standard indicator that measures the achievements by the extent to which the stated objectives have been realized, Russia’s war aga...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

From dilettantism to war: a review of Andrei Kozyrev’s political memoir

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  R ussia is remarkably ill-starred by having had very incompetent leaders. They have done the opposite of what they intended to accomplish....
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

The many in one: A review of Amartya Sen’s “Home in the world: A memoir”

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N o contemporary famous economist has as broad interests and knowledge, nor as diverse life experience as Amartya Sen. It is not surprisin...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

The novelty of technologically regressive import substitution

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  I n the next decade or so, the history of economic policy will be enriched by a new, never imagined, experiment: how to accomplish technol...
Saturday, April 16, 2022

The lessons and implications of seizing Russian oligarchs’ assets

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  T he first and the most obvious lesson that we can draw from the confiscation of Russian oligarchs’ assets is that the pre-February 24 Rus...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

The evolution of Karl Marx: a review of Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx at the Margins”

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  T he goal of this very well-researched and well-written book is to show the evolution in Marx’s thinking away from the unilinear view of ...