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A GOOD KEYNES MAN

Paul Samuelson, 1916-2009.
Listener: 23 January, 2010
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;
We called it “Sam”, but its official title was Economics. Written by Paul Samuelson, it’s the book that – as author Robert Heilbroner put it – “changed our vision of economics from the dismal science to a study of social possibilities”. The first edition [...]

23rd January 2010 | Comments Closed

WATCH OUT FOR WEASELS

Children’s classic The Wind in the Willows is also a fable for adults.
Listener: 9 January, 2010.
Keywords: Literature and Culture; Macroeconomics & Money;
The “Poop-poop” rang with a brazen shout in their ears, they had a moment’s glimpse of an interior of glittering plate-glass and rich morocco and the magnificent motor-car, immense, breath-snatching, passionate, with its pilot [...]

9th January 2010 | Comments Closed