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Question: Which economist who became a celebrity in the left/center-left in the 21st century is your favorite?
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Ha Joon Chang
 
#2
Mariana Mazzucato
 
#3
Randall Wray
 
#4
Yanis Varoufakis
 
#5
Thomas Piketty
 
#6
Joseph Stiglitz
 
#7
Paul Krugman
 
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« on: June 27, 2021, 11:27:46 AM »

Some of them are younger, like Chang, Mazzucato and Piketty, some of them are older but became a celebrity of the left after 40, like Stiglitz and Krugman
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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2021, 02:35:44 PM »

Where is the Wolffe man?

Ha Joon Chang is pretty based.
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2021, 04:45:07 PM »

Criminally, several Japanese economists are absent.
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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2021, 02:41:37 PM »

Write in : Steve Keen.
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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2021, 07:07:47 PM »

Janet Yellen
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« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2021, 09:00:53 PM »

Daniel Kahneman.  Also, Justin Wolfers, Diana Rivera, Branko Milanovic, David Rothschild, Melissa Kearney, Kevin Milligan, Richard Denniss and Catherine Rampell.
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« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2021, 03:13:25 PM »

Piketty has provided a useful contribution. While dry, I did find his book interesting. Paul Krugman is a hack who is wrong about nearly everything.
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« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2021, 07:48:58 PM »

Criminally, several Japanese economists are absent.

Japan is one of the few countries that actually needs a dose of neoliberalism. Its economy is too dominated by a few big banks, companies and insiders that have been around institutionally for around a century, just as its sclerotic political system is dominated by one party of conservative old men. Both economically and politically the neoliberal era passed by Japan to its detriment.
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« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2021, 01:49:43 PM »

Of these, Yanis is the most percipient by far, although I like Foster better.
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2021, 04:01:13 PM »

Criminally, several Japanese economists are absent.

Japan is one of the few countries that actually needs a dose of neoliberalism. Its economy is too dominated by a few big banks, companies and insiders that have been around institutionally for around a century, just as its sclerotic political system is dominated by one party of conservative old men. Both economically and politically the neoliberal era passed by Japan to its detriment.
And they’ve tried such approach with aspects of Abenomics and failed spectacularly. Neoliberalism does not gets rid of any red tape or weakens the existing class relations (this applies to the Japanese Megacorps), it only makes it stronger.

Another cool economist is Michael Roberts for his dunking of the (Post)Keynesian perspective from a Marxist standpoint.
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« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2021, 05:40:25 PM »

Criminally, several Japanese economists are absent.

Japan is one of the few countries that actually needs a dose of neoliberalism. Its economy is too dominated by a few big banks, companies and insiders that have been around institutionally for around a century, just as its sclerotic political system is dominated by one party of conservative old men. Both economically and politically the neoliberal era passed by Japan to its detriment.
And they’ve tried such approach with aspects of Abenomics and failed spectacularly. Neoliberalism does not gets rid of any red tape or weakens the existing class relations (this applies to the Japanese Megacorps), it only makes it stronger.

Another cool economist is Michael Roberts for his dunking of the (Post)Keynesian perspective from a Marxist standpoint.

Abenomics was just Keynesianism, e.g. printing money and fiscal spending. A fine prescription for the West. Actually the third leg of Abenomics was supposed to be structural reform but it was never implemented, lol.
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« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2021, 04:34:28 AM »

Actually Varoufakis deserves a vote just for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZNwdcESn90
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