Category Archives: HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS
“Beware! Competition for Research Funds Can Kill You”
Beware! Competition for research funds can kill you December 5, 2014 from Grazia Ietto-Gillies What I am about to report is not specifically about the economics profession. However, it is an economics issue in that it is linked to: competition for … Continue reading
Calling All Rebel Economists!
Calling all rebel economists! December 3, 2014 from Richard Wolff This project is important and long-overdue to undo the narrow orthodoxy that has suffocated diversity and heterogeneity and social criticism within the discipline (sic) of economics. I am glad to spread … Continue reading
25 Graphics Showing Upward Redistribution of Income and Wealth in USA Since 1979
25 graphics showing upward redistribution of income and wealth in USA since 1979 February 25, 2011David F. RuccioLeave a commentGo to comments from David Ruccio I assemble a presentation on inequality on a regular basis for my Principles of Microeconomics course. … Continue reading
Five Ugly Decades of Middle-Class Wages in America
Five Ugly Decades of Middle-Class Wages in America Post Categories: Canada Doug Short | Monday, November 24, 2014, 11:29 Beijing Here’s a perspective on personal income for production and nonsupervisory private employees going back five decades. The Bureau of Labor … Continue reading
The Teaching of Economics in Crisis
The teaching of economics is in crisis. November 24, 2014 An international student call for pluralism in economics It is not only the world economy that is in crisis. The teaching of economics is in crisis too, and this crisis has consequences far … Continue reading
20 Graphs Showing Inequality in the USA
20 graphs showing inequality in the USA April 7, 2011 Below are 20 graphs from The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequalityshowing inequality, and in the main increasing inequality, in the United States. Clicking on any graph will take you … Continue reading
Is the UK Facing Another Financial Crisis?
Is the UK facing another financial crisis? (3 graphs) November 20, 2014 from Steve Keen Taken at face value, David Cameron’s warning this week about risks in the global economy sounds like it might be wonderfully prescient. Here’s the country’s economic chauffeur, carefully checking … Continue reading