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Sun, 07/12/2025 - 23:08
A eureka moment in the pub could help transform our understanding of the ground beneath our feet. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th December 2025 It felt like walking up a mountain during a temperature inversion. You struggle through fog so dense you can scarcely see where you’re going. Suddenly, you break through […]
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Sun, 07/12/2025 - 20:34
The Hahn problem stands as a profound and frequently ignored embarrassment for monetary economics. Frank Hahn, writing in the 1960s and 1970s, posed an apparently disarmingly simple question: how can money — intrinsically worthless printed paper — possess value in a perfectly competitive general-equilibrium economy? In the mainstream Arrow–Debreu world, individuals hold only assets that […]
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Sun, 07/12/2025 - 07:50
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 20 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues, 9 postdoc positions, 4 job openings, 3 PhD scholarships, a course, and an award in economic sociology, political economy, and broadly related fields, with deadlines […]
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Sun, 07/12/2025 - 02:07
The server migration is complete, and DNS propagation is underway. If the posts you see suddenly changed, that’s why. As I wrote yesterday (in a disappeared post) most comments from yesterday after the snapshot used for the migration are taken are gone as the server was migrated from that snapshot of the site. Any comments […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 21:07
. Var vi har Timbrohögern och liberalerna i den här frågan vet vi sedan länge. Vad som däremot förvånar är att en annars så sansad ekonom som Lars Calmfors tydligen valt att ‘sälja ut’ sitt anseende och pondus i den här typen av viktiga samhällsekonomiska frågor genom att medverka i en ‘utredning’ finansierad av Stiftelsen […]
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Sat, 06/12/2025 - 10:36
As part of fixing the site I’m migrating to a new service provider. A snapshot has been taken of the site from earlier today. That means this post will probably disappear tomorrow, and I will not be approving any comments till the site migration completes, except perhaps on this post, if I did, they’d likely […]