Category Archives: Media/Journalism

How to Forecast the Stock Market from a Macro Perspective

Posted on September 9, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

My letter to the Financial Times regarding the recent article discussing stock market fragility and the debate over the interpretation of data between Robert Shiller and Jeremy Siegel has been published. In the letter I try to draw attention to … Continue reading →

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Swimming Against the Tide of History: Krugman-Galbraith ’96

Posted on August 22, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

Lars Syll has brought my attention to a very interesting exchange between Jamie Galbraith and Paul Krugman from 1996 that is archived on the latter’s website (or a website created for him, I cannot tell). Much of the discussion is … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic History, Economic Theory, Media/Journalism | 9 Comments

Google Books NGram Viewer

Posted on July 29, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

Google Books have a new tool that lets you search the incidence in the appearance of words in their massive archive, This, I think, is one of the most important historical tools to be made free for public use in … Continue reading →

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Karl Marx’s Conspiracy Theories

Posted on July 27, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

Yesterday I was debating the author of the post I criticised which used what I think to be Marx’s faulty argument regarding the Irish famine and my attention was brought to a footnote that I had missed when I read … Continue reading →

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Round and Round We Go: Krugman-Magoo Strikes Again!

Posted on July 26, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

Here we go again. Paul Krugman has made another, erm, innovative discovery. Apparently, Krugman has just discovered that when government deficits rise interest rates may not rise at all, indeed there may be a tendency for them to fall. Think … Continue reading →

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Clement Atlee: Full Employment Austerian?

Posted on July 19, 2013 by pilkingtonphil

The following is an article that I wrote for a newspaper and was never published:   In a recent interview with The Guardian Ed Miliband summoned up the ghost of the post-war prime minister and Labour Party icon Clement Atlee … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic Policy, Media/Journalism, Politics | 1 Comment