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In what sense are central banks really independent? From whom are they independent? For whom in society do they deliver?

[We are inaugurating something new in this blog: a jointly written post!]

How representation of data can contribute to, or dispel the false certainty of statistical and econometric technique.

Since September 2011, the Swiss National Bank has held a floor of 1.20 francs per euro.

Ivan Moscati is one of the most exciting voices in the historiography of decision theory.

I don’t seem to be able to fully grasp Mark Blaug’s distinction between a relativist and an absolutist approach to the history of economics – first introduced in Economic Theory in Retrospect (1962) – and that is a source of much frustration.

Like many economists, I have enjoyed Axel Leijonhufvud’s “Life among the Econ” and nodded appreciatively when he described the social classifications of the Econ as “Grads, Adults and Elders” and chuckled when the young grad tries to impress the elders of the ‘dept’ through adept ‘modl’ building; so when the man himself was holding a glass of champagne and chatting with me at the INET conference, I had to ask how he got that paper started.

Behind all the technical language and the common theme of bashing bankers, there remains the Great Divide between Germans and the rest.

On my way back home from the Brandenburger Tor, I recalled that I already have been there, it must have been in 1988.

Entangling alliances or entangling leagues are nothing to the entanglements of cash owing—Keynes