Posts Tagged ‘economists’
Differing Perceptions, Assumptions, Forecasting Styles Between Economists and Futurists
Economists forecast from past data; extrapolating trends Now also use optimistic, pessimistic forecasts Futurists construct “What If” scenarios; trends are not destiny Click here to download the PDF.
What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber
David Graeber currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths University London. Prior to this he was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’ which is available from Amazon. Interview conducted by Philip Pilkington, a journalist and writer based [...]
Subject ‘Hot Money’ to Controls
By Raul de Sagastizabal* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint MONTEVIDEO (IDN) - Hot money is the "purely speculative money," which enters into an economy or an economic sector in order to earn a short-term and/or huge profit and leave quickly, as long as it finds more profit elsewhere. Hot [...]
How Economists Facilitated the Crisis and Must Now Be Held Accountable
This article is part I of III, of Mr. Zarlenga's address at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Meeting in NYC on February 26th, 2011. Listen to it here. The ongoing financial crisis presents a rare opportunity for monetary and banking reform. There's no denying that the present "Economics Regime" has been a key cause of the pain, [...]
Happy Anniversary, Mr. Keynes: Victoria Chick and Ann Pettifor
From the Publication of Bloomberg Opinion Never has a book on economics been so anticipated. John Maynard Keynes’s “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” was published 75 years ago today. Back then, there were queues outside the Economists’ Bookshop in Houghton Street, London. Opening hours had to be extended to deal [...]
Delicious Overview of What’s Wrong With Economics (hat tip to Paul Kedrosky)
Delicious Overview of What's Wrong With Economics (hat tip to Paul Kedrosky)... Hazel Henderson The Great Mortification: Economists and the Crisis of 2007 http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/07/t_the_great_mor.html
Economist vs. Ecologists: Hazel Henderson, The New York Times, 1971
These issues are still current, more than 30 years later! Rosalinda Sanquiche, Ethical Markets Media Much of the heat in the current conflicts between economists and ecologists is generated because we fail to explore each other's assumptions before we throw the first punch. (more...)
