This is a rather cautious article by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen in the NY Review of Books (from a couple weeks ago, h/t Mark Thoma). He starts out by talking about Adam Smith and the need to put some reins on markets (he even mentions Marx): However, even as the positive contributions of capitalism through [...]
Archive for March 6th, 2009
Sen: Capitalism Beyond the Crisis
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged financial crisis, pedagogy on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
About that change in the discipline…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged financial crisis, pedagogy on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This past Tuesday afternoon, the Economics departments at Notre Dame held a panel about the recession. Three from Policy Studies (Dutt, Rakowski, and Wolfson) and two from Econometrics (Mark and Pries), gave brief presentations and fielded questions. None of their comments were particularly notable, although I thought Prof. Wolfson did the best job of emphatically [...]
