Bretton Woods, Brussels, and Beyond: Redesigning the Institutions of Europe | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

Bretton Woods, Brussels, and Beyond: Redesigning the Institutions of Europe | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

Economists have discussed extensively what to do to reform the European Project and how, but have been broadly silent on who and when. Which institutions and rules are needed, and when? This eBook shows that such institutional questions, although seldomly raised, are of fundamental importance for the future of European integration.

The Moral Narratives of Economists | Anthony Randazzo and Jonathan Haidt

Moral narratives have a substantive effect on the research conclusions of economists. This is one of the findings from a recent survey of economists that we conducted, which found a relationship between views on empirical economic propositions and moral judgments. ...

"How we entered the age of the strongman" | John Gray, the New Statesman

"Liberals have consistently misread the present – and their complacency is pushing us into a new authoritarian era."... eh?

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William Davies: A Bibliographic Review of Neoliberalism

William Davies: A Bibliographic Review of Neoliberalism: TCS is an academic publishing cluster now based at Goldsmiths, University of London. It comprises the academic, peer-reviewed journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society, as well as the Theory, Culture & Society Book Series.

Euro area reform: No deal is better than a bad deal | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

Euro area reform: No deal is better than a bad deal | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

"You don’t have a right to believe whatever you want to" | aeon.co

Do we have the right to believe whatever we want to believe? This supposed right is often claimed as the last resort of the wilfully ignorant...

"Is Liberal Democracy in Retreat?" |Steven Pinker , Robert Muggah

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/is-liberal-democracy-in-retreat-by-steven-pinker-and-robert-muggah-2018-03?a_la=english&a_d=5abd05bc78b6c71254dc917b&a_m=&a_a=click&a_s=&a_p=homepage&a_li=is-liberal-democracy-in-retreat-by-steven-pinker-and-robert-muggah-2018-03&a_pa=curated&a_ps=secondary-articles

Though some countries (and cities) are faring worse than others, the world is becoming safer and more prosperous overall – hard as that may be to believe. This is especially true of democratic countries, which stand out for their higher rates of economic growth and higher levels of wellbeing. Democracies also tend to have fewer wars and genocides, virtually no famines, and happier, healthier, better-educated citizens.

"Distrust and Political Turnover" | NBER Working Paper No. 24187 January 2018

Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian, and Jaya Wen
http://www.nber.org/papers/w24187.pdf

We present findings that document one way in which a society's culture can affect political outcomes....

"Escape the echo chamber" | aeon.co

Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It’s not just that different people are drawing subtly different conclusions from the same evidence. It seems like different intellectual communities no longer share basic foundational beliefs. Maybe nobody cares about the truth anymore,