Economic Theory

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/9/2022
  

  Bad Economics

  by Simon Torracinta

  A historian of science reviews three books on the history of economic thought, which support the conclusion that the ideas animating the mainstream of the discipline and enabling it to dominate discussions of policy are badly in need of reexamination. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/11/2021
  

  The Coronavirus Killed the Gospel of Small Government

  by Zachary D. Carter

  Revisiting the work of Keynes highlights the fact that struggles to deal with the pandemic are not only public health failures but economic failures — an inability to marshal resources to solve a problem.