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How modern economics got mathematized (funny)
Posted: 2016/03/31 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: economics, mathematics, Neoclassical, Social Sciences
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The Man Who Won a Nobel Prize for Helping Create a Global Financial Crisis » TripleCrisis
Posted: 2013/10/30 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: economic, Mainstream economics, methodology, Social Sciences
http://triplecrisis.com/the-man-who-won-a-nobel-prize-for-helping-create-a-global-financial-crisis/
It’s amazing just how utterly debunked mainstream economics is. There are lots of us (economists) who are not charlatans, quacks, and clergymen but almost all the respectable mainstream ivy-leaguers are.
I open my principles of economics courses by stating that at least 80% of the familiar standard neo-classical “economics” textbook is BS and that this is not my opinion but a scientific observation.
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a little rant about the lessons learned from the most recent economic crisis
Posted: 2013/09/16 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: crisis, economic, economics, heterodox, History of economic thought, Mainstream economics, radical, Social Sciences
I wanted to chime in very briefly with a little rant about the lessons learned from the most recent crisis:
(1) A good number of economists from the left and the right DID predict this would happen and have also discussed in details the chronic problems the US economy has developed over the past few decades. This large minority of economists are often referred to as heterodox (as opposed to the orthodox/mainstream) views heard on the media and in traditional textbooks). So the notion that this crisis was a “surprise” or that “nobody could have predicted” it is BS spewed by leading mainstream economists who are defending their intellectually bankrupt views that have brought them their success and fortunes.
(2) Mainstream economics seems to have learned shockingly little from the crisis even though it confirmed many of the theories of the heterodox/radical economists while decisively falsifying most of the mainstream theories. In this sense the economics profession has shown itself to be thoroughly unscientific (from a methodological perspective) and the majority of its celebrated leaders to be little more than idiot-savants justifying the practices of the elites who feed them.
This is truly a low point in the history of economic thought but let’s not forget the minority of economists who are screaming blue murder for decades and have taken very significant hits to their careers by refusing to be seduced by the simplistic views and generous rewards of the mainstream.
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Show #32 I’m back from the Eastern Economic Association conference in NYC!
Posted: 2013/05/14 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in PodcastsTags: Benjamin Balak, bureaucracy, conference, Eastern Economic Association, scholarship, Social Sciences
After completing my 3 year sentence to be the Chair of the Department of Economics, and dealing with Soviet-style bureaucracy and other administrative eldritch horrors, I’m reviving my research and scholarship! I had a blast meeting old friends and new, presenting 2 of my papers and discussing others.
Oh how I missed the academic life: study hard & party hard!
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Show #31 with Jose Galvez
Posted: 2013/05/07 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in PodcastsTags: conspiracy, crisis, culture, hate, Jose Galvez, media, methodology, PhD, philosophy, philosophy of science, propaganda, Social Sciences, University of Colorado
Jose is a Rollins alumnus working on his PhD in economics at Colorado State University – Fort Collins.
He added a lot of methodological substance to my usual ramblings and gave us some really interesting things to think about in hopes of improving the sorry state of economics and the world.
We also had some technical difficulties figuring out how to connect to a phone but ended up getting pretty decent sound out of Jesse’s iThingy and a microphone (old school).
FINALLY: When I mentioned we got some hate mail on the blog, a guy named STUART called and said some nice things about the show–WE LOVE YOU STUART!
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