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Keynotes for 12th International Post Keynesian Conference

Posted on August 27, 2014 by L. Randall Wray | Comments Off

There is still time to register for our upcoming Post Keynesian conference at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Unfortunately, the program is full so we cannot accept paper proposals. However, there is still space for participants.

The registration is cheap, and includes all dinners and special events, some of which are listed below. For more information regarding registration, contact Avi Baranes: [email protected]

THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL POST KEYNESIAN CONFERENCE
Kansas City, Missouri
September 25–28, 2014

Cosponsored by the University of Missouri–Kansas City, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, with support from the Ford Foundation Continue reading →

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Hollande Channels Pétain and Chooses Economic and Political Suicide

Posted on August 27, 2014 by William Black | 2 comments

By William K. Black

In a prior column I described how the finance ministers of Italy and Serbia committed financial malpractice and betrayed their nations and their heads of state by insisting on bleeding the economy through austerity to make it healthy. “Two EU Finance Ministers Throw their Bosses and Nations Under the Bus.”

In France, however, Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg risked his political life to try to prevent President Hollande from throwing France and the Socialist Party under the austerity bus. Hollande and Prime Minister Valls proved that no good deed goes unpunished by forcing Montebourg out of his position and throwing the Nation and their Party under the bus. Montebourg proved the truth of the proverb that warns that it is dangerous to be correct when those in power are desperately wrong.

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