On Sunak’s Macroeconomics

While Rishi Sunak is busy defending borrowing based deficits in the Tory Leadership election, he gave a lecture earlier in the year, setting out his modern supply theory motivations. This is half bollocks, a quarter some interesting problem definitions, leading to some disappointing solutions. Here are my notes.

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Prof. Michael Bernstein

I have been attempting to finish an article I started five years ago and hoped that reviews of David Warsh’s Knowledge and Wealth of Nations might help me avoid re-reading it. One of the reviews I came across was by Prof. Michael A Bernstein. Here are my notes.

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Fragment on machines

I think I’ll try and get to grip with this, but Marx is very hard read. I am also particularly interested in his views on General Intellect, it seems he agrees that software should be free, but then he also thought that workers should run the state. The fragment on machines is part of the…

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