Saturday, November 8, 2014

Steve Keen — What Austerity Hawks Ignore

My fellow Post Keynesian and good mate Professor John Harvey published an excellent piece on his Forbes blog today, pointing out the fallacy of composition in the pro-austerity. He took his cue from anti-austerity riots in Belgium:…. 
I thought it was a great post (and he’d come up with the analogy the night before when we shared dinner after establishing an exchange agreement between our two universities, TCU and Kingston). So I tweeted it and thought nothing more of it. 
But then my work on a presentation defending mathematics in economics that I‘m giving at Cambridge University on Monday was disturbed by a series of aggressive tweets from Geert Noels, the author of Econoshock, who argued that Belgium wasn’t in fact practicing austerity:….
Steve Keen's Debtwatch
What Austerity Hawks Ignore
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