The Neoclassical conspiracy against Post Keynesian Economics

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Published : June 11th, 2013
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Paul Krug­man recently posted on pre­dic­tions of the cri­sis before it hap­pened, in a piece enti­tled “Non-prophet Eco­nom­ics”. It had a set of propo­si­tions about how one should eval­u­ate such claims with which I com­pletely and utterly agree. I’ll quote it in its entirety, because it’s an emi­nently suit­able start­ing point for eval­u­at­ing whether a pre­dic­tion was in fact made:

So as I see it, we should first of all be eval­u­at­ing mod­els, not indi­vid­u­als; obvi­ously we need peo­ple to inter­pret those entrails mod­els, but we’re look­ing for the right eco­nomic frame­work, not the dis­mal Nostradamus.

Read more: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2...s#ixzz2VszIBLQ2

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