Is FREE TRADE the hidden factor behind our problems ranging from financial crises to weak job creation?• Our economy has ceased generating net new jobs in internationally traded sectors.• Currency manipulation gives foreign companies an unfair advantage, but our government does nothing.• American workers now compete with nations where average pay is just over a [...]
ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism (9780230620513): Yves Smith: Books
February 11, 2011 By
Review “The helplessness you feel, in the face of the demonic complexity of modern finance…set it aside, and pick up Yves Smith book ECONned. Indignation and clarity and omnivorous knowledge come together in her writing, to explain how we, the taxpayers, are being meticulously fleeced. Never go into an argument about the financial crisis unarmed [...]
Maynard’s Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics (9780674050464): Lance Taylor: Books
February 10, 2011 By
Editorial ReviewsReviewLance Taylor has written a tome for our times. It is engaging and forceful, the analysis is of the highest order, and the exposition of very complex ideas is wonderfully clear.–Geoffrey Harcourt, University of New South Wales There is a need for a careful analysis of why exactly much of mainstream macroeconomics is irrelevant [...]
