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In this initial blog post we wish to situate microeconomics as a field of social enquiry.

I thought I was on to an inside reference when re-reading the General Theory when Keynes calls Marx, Edgeworth and others simply by name, but refers to “Professor Pigou” in several instances.

Mid August, with the Olympics over, Paralympics and Premiership starting (that’s Soccer for the American readership), it is well and truly the quiet period for most of academia.

Has the servant’s servant become the master’s master?

A few weeks ago, I attended the H2S 4th workshop on “Cross disciplinary ventures in postwar American Social Sciences,” (research program outline here).

At the heart of the Eurocrisis lies a vicious circle where once there was a virtuous one.

After the recent election brought a center-right coalition to power, what’s next in the Greek crisis? Are we finally in the clear? Not so fast, Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis says. Varoufakis explains the real outcome we can except after Greek voters’ “contradictory verdict,” where 55% voted for anti-bailout parties yet a pro-bailout government resulted due to the nature of Greece’s electoral system.

Here is a talk I gave recently at Wake Forest University.

Our usual problem in history (of economics) is a lack of information.

I think I am on the track of what ‘New Economics’ is, and one could roughly sum up two days of presentations in two diagrams: