Robert Teitelman | Posted 11.29.2011
Keynesianism was dealt a serious blow. What's left in the ruins? Who knows? But what occurs on a debate stage or a presidential podium is really not what defines modern economics. Or at least it shouldn't.
The New York Times | SYLVIA NASAR | Posted 11.18.2011
For someone who’s been dead for 65 years, John Maynard Keynes has amazing presence. Open a paper, click on a blog or TV, and, voilà, like Waldo, he...
Chriss Street | Posted 10.30.2011
Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), the world's largest manager of bonds, has just released research analysis titled: "Saying No to Keynes ...
James Peron | Posted 10.17.2011
Friedrich Hayek, the intransigent opponent of socialism that Glenn Beck and conservatives admire, also saw himself equally opposed to their conservative agenda, something conservatives ignore at their peril.
Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.17.2011
If you go to The New York Times' obituary page, you will see the list of deaths of famous people who died in any given month and were written about in...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- It wasn't so very long ago that many economists and even some White House officials were talking about the need for more government spen...
Alex Blaze | Posted 05.25.2011
Well, with all the states facing budget crunches and looking for something to cut, someone in this homophobic society was bound to come right and say ...
Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011
Now they are saying we have 3,481 killed by cholera. It is doubtless many more... But in any case, these are just numbers to newspaper readers and ra...
Nathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011
It is not too long -- less than a decade I would guess -- before the Keynesian Experiment comes to an end, and the world can finally get back on a more productive and healthy track.
Jane Regan | Posted 05.25.2011
"As Haiti suffers, the world dozes," remarked a recent Washington Post editorial. But not everyone is dozing... All across Haiti, humanitarian agen...
Warren Mosler | Posted 05.25.2011
The current mortgage crisis is not a real economic crisis.There have been no houses that have been actually destroyed - there has been no fire, no hur...
The Daily Beast | Posted 05.25.2011
As in the 1930s, the economy is suffering a sharp decline in aggregate demand and loss of business confidence. Long experience shows that monetary pol...
Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011
Paul Ryan's quest to slash government spending is a job-killing agenda. He has to resort to crazy incoherent arguments about interest rates because everybody can see that spending money to create jobs will, you know, create jobs.
Matthew Bishop | Posted 05.25.2011
We don't believe capitalism will ever be perfect, or that you can entirely drive out the dark side of human nature. But we can do a lot better than we have done so far.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011
Fox News host Stuart Varney has lashed out at University of Texas economist James Galbraith for teaching his students "naked Keynesianism" -- to Galbr...
Dr. Vladimir A. Masch | Posted 05.25.2011
Neoclassical economics must be replaced. Nobody can predict now the full scale of its radical replacement, and how beneficial would that replacement become, but its absence will surely be a tragedy.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011
What is left out of the description of his theory in regards to counter-cyclical fiscal policy, is that Keynes also believed that in times of relative prosperity sovereigns should create budget surpluses.
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
There's a major panel discussion going on today in Washington, D.C. called "The Next Stage," in which economists are coming together to discuss the pr...
Sony Kapoor | Posted 05.25.2011
The financial crisis, the biggest in living memory, has tilted the political and financial landscape in a direction that makes Tobin Taxes not just more desirable but also much easier to implement.
Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't disagree with Paul Krugman, but he is missing out on some big issues that also need to be discussed and understood before we actually know what is going on in our world.
Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011
It is simply wrong to suggest that the fiscal stimulus "will cripple us long-term." It will not. The fiscal stimulus will pay for itself -- here's how.
Alan Schram | Posted 05.25.2011
Spending is the problem that caused this crisis in the first place. We cannot fix the problem using more of its root cause.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011
The Washington Consensus is that whatever measures are needed to ensure economic recovery should be taken. This is especially true of the incoming te...
Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 05.25.2011
The way out of our crisis is to limit further the influence of government over the economy, so that even if someone could afford to buy political influence, there would be very little to sell.
HuffPost Radio | Posted 02.27.2012