Reality Economics

The U.S. Has No (And Never Could Have A) Debt Crisis

By Dr. Marty Rowland and Dr. Walter E. Perry There is total confusion on both sides of the aisle (or...

High Gasoline Prices? Oligopoly as a Safe Harbor or Pearl Harbor (depending on your point of view)

In the late 1890s the problem was monopoly, so the Sherman Anti-Trust Act1 was enacted to counter manufacturing monopolies. Were Sherman...

Fiscal Policies for a Low -Carbon Economy

Report by Willi Semmler, João Paulo Braga, Andreas Lichtenberger, MariemeToure, and Erin Hayde Climate disasters are occurring with ever higher...

Do inflation expectations even matter anymore?

Blog Post by Edward Harrison We got a big CPI print today, 5.0%. That’s above expectations. And, we saw a...

The macro crystal ball: macro framing and historical antecedents

by Edward Harrison Happy June.!! Listen, I want to start this month with a thought piece rather than a data...

Anwar Shaikh speaking at the Oxford Economics Society

Anwar Shaikh gives a talk at the Oxford Economics Society on his argument for a general theoretical and empirical alternative...

How transitory is transitory, housing edition?

Blog Post by Edward Harrison In yesterday’s post, the question was this: how bad do inflationary impulses have to get...

Tax and spend, crony capitalism and the peasant revolt

Blog Post by Edward Harrison Let’s veer into the political economy today, a sort of third rail of market and...

WELCOME!

Welcome to the Henry George School of Social Science’s blog – Land Value Return and Recycle – a periodic posting...