Friday, July 31, 2020

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

60 Years of Sraffa's PCMC: Watch the whole seminar here

Ed Nell, who shared his signed copy of PCMC
 
The whole Zoominar can be watched at the Review of Keynesian Economics' (ROKE) Facebook page here. It starts early with the live-stream, you can jump to minute 49 or so and watch from the onward.

Autonomous demand, capacity utilization, and the supermultiplier


New issue of ROKE is out. Check out the free papers by Serrano, Summa and Garrido Moreira, and by Fiebiger, beyond the intro by Summa and Freitas.

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

60 Years of Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities/ROKE Webinar

Tomorrow we will talk about this book that is the Rosetta Stone of the history of economic ideas (read post 6 below for more on that). I'm happy to have a great panel to discuss it. In the meantime below 7 previous posts on Sraffa's contributions to economics, which might be helpful for some.
  1. Sraffa and the Marshallian System
  2. Sraffa, Marx and the Labor Theory of Value (LTV)
  3. Sraffa, Ricardo and Marx
  4. The Standard Commodity and the LTV
  5. The Capital Debates
  6. Microfoundations of Macroeconomics and the Capital Debates
  7. Free Trade and the Capital Debates

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Argentina: Past Industrialization Problems and Perspectives (in Portuguese)


Interview with Fausto Oliveira, economic journalist that produces the channel Brazilian Industrial Revolution. For those interested in the process of economic development and its relation to the process of industrialization in the periphery (and speak Portuguese) I highly recommend it.

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Webinar on COVID and the Argentinean situation (in Spanish)



For those interested, I suggest listening only to Amico's talk if you already heard a version of my COVID talk.

Inflation, real wages, and the election results

Almost everybody these days accepts at face value that the result of the election was heavily determined by negative perceptions about Biden...