🇦🇺Living on Bidjigal land of the Eora Nation. Mostly follow politics, #MMT economics, history, sport #SydneyIsSkyBlue #YNWA at tomfoster66 dot bsky dot social

Sydney, New South Wales
Joined May 2009
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Tomorrow is publication day for ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS! 🌹🌾 I wrote this book so that everyone can read it. I’m delighted that Booklist describes it as "a vision of economics centred on affordability" that’s accessible to all. 🔗 Order your copy now via the links below.
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Since 1979, American productivity has risen 93.7%. Hourly pay has risen 32.7%. The pie got bigger, but workers got a smaller slice. I tracked down the UK data and found the same pattern.
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This set of quotes from @IsabellaMWeber’s new Anti-Fascist Economics really says it all
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Looks like @John_T_Harvey will need to add a few more chapters to the next edition of his book ‘Contending Perspectives in Economics: A Guide to Contemporary Schools of Thought’🤔 @PhilArmstrong58
ChatGPT has identified 36 varieties of Keynesianism: 1. Original Keynesianism 2. Classical Keynesianism 3. Orthodox Keynesianism 4. Traditional Keynesianism 5. Old Keynesianism 6. Neo-Keynesianism 7. Hydraulic Keynesianism 8. Disequilibrium Keynesianism 9. Bastard Keynesianism 10. New Keynesianism 11. Behavioral New Keynesianism 12. Representative-Agent New Keynesianism (RANK) 13. Two-Agent New Keynesianism (TANK) 14. Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesianism (HANK) 15. Post-Keynesianism 16. Fundamentalist Post-Keynesianism 17. Cambridge Keynesianism 18. Institutionalist Post-Keynesianism 19. Structuralist Post-Keynesianism 20. Horizontalist Post-Keynesianism 21. Minskyan Post-Keynesianism 22. Circuitist Post-Keynesianism 23. Kaleckian Post-Keynesianism 24. Kaldorian Post-Keynesianism 25. Sraffian Post-Keynesianism 26. Left Keynesianism 27. Right-Wing Keynesianism 28. Conservative Keynesianism 29. Social Democratic Keynesianism 30. Military Keynesianism 31. Green Keynesianism 32. Environmental Keynesianism 33. Global Keynesianism 34. International Keynesianism 35. Developmental Keynesianism 36. Fiscal Keynesianism
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Another Russian data center has migrated to the cloud.
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The Catholic church has a thing called Papal infallibility stating that the pope is preserved from the possibility of error when he teaches a doctrine of faith. It seems we now also have "economist infallibility" when it comes to the doctrine of faith in "economic growth" preserving neo-liberal economists from the possibility of error, ... & so we continue to grow, & grow, & grow, even as the earth crumbles under the crushing weight of their infallible ideology.
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Replying to @foscaecon
Exactly. If you actually create the financial statements for a DSGE model, you quickly see that what is going on is incredibly simple (with micro foundations and various shocks added such that the math itself isn't simple, obviously), unrealistic, and frankly uninteresting.
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Un héroe ha caido
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
La imagen es generada por IA y no muestra un evento real. Fotos virales similares de la Pantera Rosa en protestas en Francia han sido verificadas como creadas con inteligencia artificial. newtral.es/pantera-rosa-p…
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Replying to @farmerrf
Come on. That just feels like a random uninformed dismissal When Post Keynesians say Stock Flow Consistency of the Godley Lavoie tradition. They mean explicitly matching assets and liabilities and flows across different balance sheets in different time periods Stocks are state variables that feed in to flows (interest payments, capital gains/losses, leverage, liquidity constraints). Endogenous money happens through balance sheet expansions on both the assets and liabilities side. You don’t need to invent exogenous money supply. You don’t need to invent shocks. Sectoral balances. Solvency and liquidity can cause Minsky style instabilities by themselves In contrast the DSGE stock flow consistency is tautological. Flows balance. But stocks are not state variables between different sectoral positions. And yes you are right. We need a stochastic sectoral balances model with heterogeneous agents (with their own balance sheets) to model the economy. I mean if you can accept the fairy tale of a model with one representative agent representing the whole of economy when the root of economic interaction is agents with their own expectations and balance sheet positions trying to trade things with each other The intellectual arrogance of mainstream economics given the last 50 years of unclear models and predictions continues to stagger me
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Every economics student should be tied to a chair and forced to study Godley and Lavoie’s Monetary Economics cover to cover, in painstaking detail.
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Policymakers the world over will use this to shape their affordability agendas. Congratulations to my friend @IsabellaMWeber on another important book! penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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Thank you so much Mariana for your support and all your trailblazing work for the common good!
Massive congrats to my friend @IsabellaMWeber for her excellent new book out in the UK this week. We need it today more than ever. As many of us have been arguing, a different economy is possible—-but it must be fought for. Also great review in the @guardian today: theguardian.com/business/202…
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Grandpa is GONE.
CHAOS AT THE RALLY - Trump walked right past The Beast; he clearly didn't want to take the ride to Air Force One. He was surrounded by secret service and directed back to the car. Same exact thing happened yesterday. WHY WON'T THEY LET HIM WALK LONG DISTANCES? 🤔
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I gather this means they seized the means of production, literally…
"They Stormed the Winter Palace." A gathering of veterans of the storming of the Winter Palace on the 40th anniversary of the event. (Leningrad, Palace Square, 1957)
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Replying to @TheRickWilson
Just fast forward to the Bunker scene please. 🤣🤣
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It's getting good at the White House. And by "good" I mean "cannibal rats in a bucket."
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Replying to @AaronSepulvedaC
A positive interest rate policy as per the academic definition of inflation. I present a specific framework for purposes of analysis: moslereconomics.com/wp-conte…
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Replying to @edugaresp
Lo primero que hay que decir es que... LO DE ECONOMÍA NO ES UN NOBEL!!!!!! Siento gritar, pero Alfred Nobel, como buen químico, sabía lo que era la economía y, al igual que las matemáticas, las dejó fuera de sus premios.
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Katie Zacharia wasn't fired because she lied. It was because she was a bad liar. It's a key distinction.
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Richard Feynman on being wrong 💭
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