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Economics: The Dismal Profession

// Arvind Subramanian writes recently in the FT that the field of economics has “made amends” for failing to predict the economic crisis by producing effective solutions for managing it. The fact that a depression was avoided indicates that, for all its flaws, economics has contributed positively. For sure, we have not learnt all the [...]

Economics Really is The Dismal Science

// A recent article in Forbes reports on a study indicating that American inequality has not increased as much as typically believed. Apparently, the authors of the article think this study is much more earth-shattering than it is. In reality, it is yet another volley in the endless back-and-forth among economists and analysts and pundits about [...]

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