By Michael Roberts The news that Japan’s real GDP dropped sharply in the last quarter of 2019 and the economy appears to be entering a
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Michael Bloomberg, the American billionaire, has his own TV channel and news services like e-mails, devoted mostly to economic issues. Some of the information they
By Michael Roberts At the recent conference ASSA 2020 (organised by the American Economic Association), there was a session on whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
By Michael Roberts Recently, the Levy Institute, the think-tank centre for post-Keynesian economics (and in particular the theories of Hyman Minsky, the radical Keynesian economist
By Michael Roberts “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” is an old Danish proverb, often attributed to Nils Bohr, the Danish atomic
By Michael Roberts I should have reviewed Brett Christophers’ book, The New Enclosure, when it came out this time last year. But better late than never. In
By Michael Roberts John Weeks is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. He is also a coordinator of
By Michael Roberts Recently, Benoît Cœuré, a leading French member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, delivered an address to economics students
By Michael Roberts The fantasy world continues. In the US and Europe, stock market index levels are hitting new all-time highs. Bond prices are also
by Michael Roberts “There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no
