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International, interdisciplinary colloquium explores "Languages of Economic Crises" (York University)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Mar 2016
(Source. York University) ... Speakers from five countries will present both live and via teleconference during the event ... It takes place in South 802, Ross Building ... Marcelo Vieta ... Daniele Besomi, a researcher at the Centre Walras-Pareto (University of Lausanne), has written extensively on crises and business cycles, and has edited an authoritative collection on Cycles and Crises in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias (Routledge 2011)....

Assumptions can be misleading

Edit Canberra Times 22 Jan 2016
Financial journalists like nothing more than a consultant's report telling us the impact of a tax reform package ...  . Don't be frightened by the jargon ... The pioneer of the system, Leon Walras​ – who twice failed the entrance exam to the Ecole Polytechnique​ and was unable to get a teaching job in France, but managed to obtain a chair of Political Economy in Switzerland – saw the economic world as a mechanical world in balance ... ....

Class Interests as Economic Theory

Edit CounterPunch 14 Nov 2014
There is now a widespread consensus that mainstream/neoclassical economists failed miserably to either predict the coming of the 2008 financial implosion, or provide a reasonable explanation when it actually arrived. Not surprisingly, many critics have argued that neoclassical economics has created more confusion than clarification, more obfuscation than elucidation ... ... . ... . ... . ... . ... William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger and Leon Walras ... ... 5....
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