Is Paul Krugman’s Liquidity Trap Really an Inequality Trap?
- Polly Cleveland
- January 16
- D&S BLOG
As I watched Paul Krugman Sunday night on Bill Moyers, I felt a familiar sense... | Read more »
The Keynesian Stimulus Spending Fallacy
- Polly Cleveland
- December 28
- D&S BLOG
It’s a truism of pop Keynesian economics that consumer spending drives the economy; if spending... | Read more »
Capturing the Multinational Dragons’ Gold
- Polly Cleveland
- December 07
- D&S BLOG
As medieval dragons do, the dragon in the Beowulf epic sleeps on a pile of... | Read more »
Pity the Poor Child Molester
- Polly Cleveland
- November 18
- D&S BLOG
Imagine that you woke up one day and found, not that you had turned into... | Read more »
Yves Smith on The Finance-led Counterrevolution and the Rush to Destroy the Safety Net
- Polly Cleveland
- October 30
- D&S BLOG
Yves Smith has said it better than I could in her blog, Naked Capitalism: “My... | Read more »
How to (Really) End This Depression: a Response to Paul Krugman
- Polly Cleveland
- May 20
- D&S BLOG
In the May 24 New York Review of Books, Paul Krugman writes, "The truth is... | Read more »
What Drives the War on Drugs?
- Polly Cleveland
- June 16
- D&S BLOG
First it was the Dominican limo driver, who disappeared while driving a client upstate. When... | Read more »
Can Killing Government Prevent Special Interest Capture?
- Polly Cleveland
- May 30
- D&S BLOG
In my last post on meat markets and securities markets, I argued that competitive markets... | Read more »
Animal Spirits, by Akerlof and Shiller
- Polly Cleveland
- September 21
- D&S BLOG
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism,... | Read more »
Magic Mushrooms
- Polly Cleveland
- August 31
- D&S BLOG
It had been a rainy summer in Colorado. No surprise to find mushrooms as we... | Read more »
