Posts Tagged ‘Inside Job’
A Code of Ethics for Economists
A quick holiday post: Hat-tip to KH about Gerald Epstein’s effort to get economists to adopt a code of ethics at the upcoming Allied Social Sciences Association meetings, January 6th through 9th. (These are mainly the American Economics Association meetings, but I love how the name of the umbrella association makes it sound as if ...Read more.
Cat-Food Commission, Deficits, etc.
(1) The Cat-Food Commission–Oops!–I Mean the Deficit Commission: Two new articles posted to the D&S website just now: Deficits: Real Issue, Phony Debates, by Rick Wolff (from the Nov/Dec issue), and The Deficit Commission and Redistribution, by Darwin BondGraham (web-only). Check them out! Joshua Holland also has a great article on deficits over at Alternet: Why ...Read more.
An Evening with Fancy Economists
Readers of this blog may remember that I visited the American Academy of Arts and Sciences last spring for a forum on “Prospects for the Economy.” I blogged about that forum under the title An Evening with Fancy Bankers. As I recounted, the most memorable, and appalling, speaker on the panel was not a banker ...Read more.
