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At Home in Economics
My friend read somewhere that the experience of death makes people think in philosophical terms. He might have thought of religion rather than philosophy, I replied. We agreed, and wandered off talking about our crypto-religious experiences in good old secular Europe.
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Liquidity, Public and Private
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Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman: How can history stimulate new economic thinking?
The following text was sent to us by Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman, we reproduce it in its entirety.
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Backhouse and Bateman want Worldly Philosophers, not only dentists; not everyone agrees
Professors Roger Backhouse and Brad Bateman wrote an op-ed for the New York Times a few days ago, arguing that “thanks to decades of academic training in the “dentistry” approach to economics, today’s Keynes or Friedman is nowhere to be found” - we have stopped thinking big they say.