The Slack Wire

Start with a point on language. People often talk about aggregate demand as if it were a quantity. But this is not exactly right. There...

(Warning: To anyone reading this who's not immersed in the debates of the econo blogosphere, this post will fully live up the blog'...

Paul Krugman is fond of describing the current state of macroeconomics as a dark age -- starting around 1980, the past 50 years' progres...

[Some days it feels like that could be the title for about 40 percent of the posts on here.] Steve Keen takes up the cudgels . ( Via .) T...

A comrade writes: Economics is too important to leave it to the mainstream. Economic ideas and economists are very powerful at shaping and...

Over at Crooked Timber , John Quiggin suggests that Marxian analyses of the economic crisis have been MIA. So, for the record: Chris Rude, T...