The Colbert Report: Austerity’s Spreadsheet Error
Stephen Colbert goes to town on the Ivy League economists getting busted by UMASS-Amherst grad student Thomas Herndon for sloppy work that was used to justify economic austerity in many countries including the US
The interview with Thomas Herendon
I’ve been a fan since the days of Black Flag in the early 80s
Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela? (Greg Palast for Vice Magazine)
Nassim Taleb exposing economists’ scientific fraud hidden behind mathematics
“Economists afraid of ethics?” (macrobusiness.com.au)
you know we (the economics profession) were not always such scum-bags. Back in the 19th century political-economists (that’s how we called ourselves then… in the 18th c. we were “moral-philosophers”) were at the forefront of the struggle for the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of women, universal suffrage, etc.
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