Osvaldo Sunkel, one of the last great figures of the original Latin American structuralist tradition, has passed away. A central figure at E...

The decisive issue for voters in Brazil might be sovereignty, because U.S. attempts to meddle are raising ire.

False equivalency? You bet*   The Economist just published one of its lead articles on the Brazilian election, with the rather dramatic t...

"Volume 14 (2026): Issue 3 (Aug 2026)" published on 01 Aug 2026 by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

My encounter with Bagú, and I mean his books, was prompted many years ago by my old teacher Carlos Lessa. He mentioned Bagú's classic work o...

Maria da Conceição Tavares famously said that "nobody eats GDP, they eat food." I agreed with Conceição about many things, but on this I hav...

"Volume 14 (2026): Issue 3 (Aug 2026)" published on 01 Aug 2026 by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Andy Haldane asks in the Financial Times whether Keynesianism is dead. His argument is familiar. Fiscal policy worked when government debt ...

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

Rising Treasury yields are not a market verdict on government recklessness. They are a policy decision that transfers income from workers and borrowers to bondholders and financial institutions.

Accusations that it is thinly disguised socialism are wide of the mark, writes Brooke Harrington

Barry Eichengreen's last book --  Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto  -- is great and worth reading, as almost a...

India has gradually accelerated its path of growth since its independence, in the context of a re-emergence and re-centralisation of Asia into global capitalism. Indeed, India has been one of the fast...

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Bloomberg argues that the Cybertruck is an even bigger let down than the Ford Edsel, which is widely seen as the industry's biggest flop.

At the Institute of Economics in México in 2018 I was traveling at the conference in Rio, and didn't have time to write a short post on th...

Robert with Jane, that also passed away recently I've just heard the news that Robert Blecker passed away. I've known him since the 1990s, w...

The 9th Godley-Tobin Memorial Lecture was delivered by Professor Jayati Ghosh, from UMass, Amherst, one of the leading development economi...

Heinz Kurz recently gave a very stimulating lecture, "The Wealth of Nations (WN) at 250: The Revenge of the Mercantilists" at the Federal Un...

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and partners plan trial of two existing jabs

Su muerte motivó pronunciamientos de universidades y organizaciones que recordaron su aporte a la academia, la economía y la defensa de los derechos civiles

Neoliberalism’s defining feature was always the insulation of capital from democratic control. Trumpism’s break with free trade has changed the rhetoric. But the underlying economic order remains inta...

A lifelong engagement with poetry complemented D'Arista's career in economic policy and academic research, culminating in a recent memoir.

Transcription (not that it is needed): "The fatal mistake of Economics is that it is not true to its statical assumptions. They believe that...

He was not a crook! If Volcker symbolized the neoliberal turn in monetary policy, Greenspan embodied its financial side. He saw enough of...

Hits and Mises  (click for the joke) I have been rereading again Rod O'Donnell's work on Keynes' political and social philosophy. I had no...

La crisis energética actual coge a los países del Sur global más preparados a la hora de combatir las turbulencias del mercado que en el ‘crash’ de los años 70

Between Classical Rhetoric and Neoclassical Theory

In the pre-1960s South, which Supreme Court Republicans have just brought back from the dead, Blacks have no voice in federal lawmaking.