By Michael Roberts Was Keynes a revolutionary in economic thought and policy? Was he at least radical in his ideas? Or was he a reactionary
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By Michael Roberts Jerome Powell, the Trump-appointed Chair of the US Federal Reserve, spoke to the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) this week. He told
By Michael Roberts At the weekend, I participated in a session on what to do about the banks at the Momentum fringe of Labour Party
Lord Skidelsky and Keynes’ big idea By Michael Roberts Last night, Lord Robert Skidelsky spoke to the UK’s Progressive Economy Forum (PEF) in London. He was
By Michael Roberts Larry Summers is one of the world’s leading Keynesian economists, a former Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, a candidate previously for the
By Michael Roberts The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) claims it is “the UK’s pre-eminent progressive think tank”. It is backed and funded by many
By Michael Roberts It is coming up to ten years this September since the US investment bank Lehman Brothers was allowed to go bust in
By Michael Roberts Yesterday, we got the data for US corporate profits in the second quarter of 2018, along with a revised estimate for US
By Michael Roberts Can economics ever become ‘pluralist’? Namely, will the universities and research institutes in the major capitalist economies expand their teaching and ideas
By Michael Roberts China’s reaction to Donald Trump’s trade war has been to retaliate with its own tariffs on US exports to China, particularly agricultural/food
