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Category Archives: Marxian
What kind of Canadian political scientist are you?
Via Facebook You are devoted to the great Canadian tradition of radical political economy. You have some sort of connection to York University. Your great dream is to co-publish with Leo Panitch. You stopped explaining your work and that you … Continue reading
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Causes of the financial Crisis
These animated lectures are really good. One problem is that watching the drawing can be more interesting then the lecture. Here is David Harvey’s Crises of Capitalism. One critique that I would have is that this not really an original … Continue reading
Brad Delong Wrong Yet Again and Again and Again: oh why can’t we have smarter reform liberals
Scandalum Magnatum, takes Brad Delong to task for botching Kelecki in a recent post. Brad DeLong damns Kalecki with praise: I WAS EXPECTING A 6% PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH QUARTER, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! Productivity increased 9.5 percent in the nonfarm business … Continue reading
Does Collective action by workers always increase unemployment?
Thinking out-loud The answer to this question is almost a unanimously agreed upon yes across paradigms even within formalized Marxian models. In the classic Marx-Goodwin formulation successful collective action by workers only serves to increase the long-run rate of unemployment: … Continue reading
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Real Economist Needed: New Keynesian explanation of unemployment confounds me
I have been going around on this one for some time. The new-Keynesians’ (NKs) widely regard themselves as being a realistic improvement on their new-classical cousins. One area in particular is said to be major part of their coup-de-grace. Namely, … Continue reading
Posted in liberal economic theory, Marxian, Neoclassical, Neoliberalism
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From Despotism to Hegemony and Round-again to Hegemonic Despotism: Burawoy’s Neoliberal premonition
Michaels Burawoy’s the Politics of Production (1985), stands out as an important contribution to Marxist political economy in general and in particular Marxist analyses of the dynamic interaction between welfare state institutions, the juridical regulation of industrial relations, and the … Continue reading
Northern Rock Nationalisation : Don’t Believe the Hype
By Travis Fast Over the last couple of months one could be forgiven for thinking that the world had reverted to those heady pre 1970s days. First, the phrase market failure crept back into to the popular lexicon in the … Continue reading
Is the Central Bank a Gambling Man or a Confidence Trickster?
By Travis Fast I encourage everyone to watch this clip of David Dodge. In his estimation commodity prices will remain high and as such fuel higher incomes which taken together with the paltry one cent reduction in the GST will … Continue reading
The essence of socialism.
Travis Fast Sometimes when I find myself questioning many of my political positions (which I do every so often despite what appears here: which is the mark of a good social scientist I should add) I return to some foundational … Continue reading
