Muth’s Hypothesis Under Knightian Uncertainty
A Novel Account of Inflation Forecasts
Analysis
Food Security in Africa: “This Crisis Has Shown the Limits to Africa’s Resilience”
"We risk a global decoupling in which East and West face off in a cold war, and Africans are caught in the middle," says Professor Carlos Lopes in an interview with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin
Professor Carlos Lopes is Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London, and 2022 Fellow at Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. His new book on Africa-Europe relations will be coming out in mid-2023.
Worker’s Wages & Leverage Are the Real Targets
Why did Corporate Democrats “cede” the economic argument? Are they really fighting inflation or trying to weaken workers’ bargaining power? INET's Thomas Ferguson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
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Paul Jay
Hi, I’m Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news. The Dems, the Democratic Party, has retaken the Senate as we are speaking. It’s still not clear whether they’re going to retake the House, although most of the pundits are predicting they won’t by a slim margin. What happened and why?
The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility
University of Bonn and Sciences Po economics professor Moritz Schularick talks to Rob about the soon-to-be-released book, Leveraged, which he edited based on papers from an INET-sponsored conference. The book takes a close look at what we have learned about the costs and causes of financial fragility since 2008.
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Green Power Pools and Electricity Pricing: Practical Ways Out of the UK Energy Crisis
The current energy market structures, including the short-run-marginal-price-on-all nature of the current wholesale market, are not fit for a transition to a renewables-dominated system.
Sécurité alimentaire en Afrique: « Nous apportons des réponses de court terme à des problèmes de moyen-long terme »
Quels sont les problèmes à long terme qui doivent être résolus et quelles sont les solutions disponibles?
Food Security in Africa: “We Are Bringing Short Term Responses to Long Term Problems”
What are the long-term problems that need to be addressed and what solutions are out there?
The Main COP27 Solution to Saving the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it
The ‘solution’ master-minded by global finance at COP27 to resolve the imminent environmental crisis: create a multi-quadrillion dollars’ worth of assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons to make a profit.
Trump and the Republican Base: A Machine Learning Approach
Economic issues are a primary part of Trump's appeal to his base
As incitements to genuine fear and trembling, credible invocations of the end of the world are hard to top. So when President Joe Biden mentioned the war in Ukraine and Armageddon in the same breath at a Democratic Party fundraiser, the whole world jumped. Amid a wave of news clips filled with swooning commentary and verbal handwringing, the White House staff rushed to do damage control.1
Inflation in the Time of Corona and War: The Plight of the Developing Economies
Fears of ‘stagflation’ have come back to haunt macroeconomic policy makers all over the globe
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