Why the rich don’t pay taxes Lars Syll Beneath the civic ideal of taxation as a collective, equitable endeavour lies an entrenched hypocrisy: the architecture…
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Why Minsky still matters Lars Syll Perhaps the foremost financial crisis theorist of our time, Hyman Minsky, had as his central idea that crises are…
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Economics textbooks — scandalous intellectual dishonesty Lars Syll It is well-known that Keynes frequently criticised more traditional economics for committing the ‘fallacy of composition’. This…
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The confident falsehoods of economists and the Nobel Prize Lars Syll Faced with economic theory’s apparent inability to address real economic and financial problems, economists…
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The Road Not Taken Lars Syll Had the whole discipline catastrophically misunderstood Keynes’ deeply revolutionary ideas? We heterodox economists, who have chosen the road less…
The post The Road Not Taken first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.Rethinking public debt Lars Syll Few issues in politics and economics are nowadays more discussed — and less understood — than public debt. Many raise…
Casino Capitalism Lars Syll According to Keynes, financial crises are a recurring feature of our economy and are linked to its fundamental financial instability: “It…
NAIRU — a harmful fairy tale Lars Syll The NAIRU story has always had a very clear policy implication – every attempt to promote full…
Busting the ‘natural rate of unemployment’ myth Lars Syll Sixty years ago Milton Friedman wrote an (in)famous article arguing that (1) the natural rate of…
Mainstream distribution myths Lars Syll Extracted from Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer, by…