Sustained debt reduction: The Jamaica exception
Serkan Arslanal, Barry Eichengreen, Peter Blair Henry At a time when many countries, large and small, are confronting heavy and growing public debt burdens, Jamaica offers a rare example of a country that succeeded in substantially reducing its debt, according to a paper discussed at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conference on March […]
Τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση και κοινωνική δικαιοσύνη: ασύμβατες διαδρομές;
Μεταφέρω επιστολή αναγνώστη περί την εκπαίδευση και την δικαιοσύνη στην Εκόνομιστ της 21 Μαρτίου 2024. Διερωτώμαι, δεν είναι η άποψη αυτή προέκταμα μιας θεωρίας δικαιοσύνης – μιας θεωρίας στον αντίποδα των εξισωτικών ή φιλελεύθερων εξισωτικών θεωρών. “Schumpeter wrote about how universities are ‘torn between their responsibilities to learning and social justice’ (February 24th). This tension […]
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
Branko Milanovic (2023) Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War. Cambridge/Mass. & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 359. A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures. “How do you see […]
Daniel Kahneman – obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/04/daniel-kahneman-obituary Influential psychologist who studied how people make decisions and changed the way economists think Georgina Ferry Thu 4 Apr 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/04/daniel-kahneman-obituary The psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who has died aged 90, won the 2002 Nobel prize for economics despite describing himself as “mostly cheering … from the sidelines” of the subject. He achieved celebrity status […]