Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right
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- The Story of Economics
The Story of Economics
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Monsters
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Available since Wed, 6 Apr 2011.
3/3. Michael goes to Cambridge, where Keynes conjured the spectre of 'animal spirits'.
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Cogs
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Available since Wed, 30 Mar 2011.
2/3. Michael Blastland goes to Chicago to explore a machine-like view of the economy.
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Gods
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Available since Wed, 23 Mar 2011.
1/3. Michael Blastland goes to Athens, where economics as a discipline began.
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What's the story with economics?
What's morality got to do with it? Economics = numbers, doesn't it? In his regular column, Michael Blastland looks for the real story of economics.
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