Why private schools are better than state schools: a theoretical Ponzi scheme
By Marc Morgan Are private schools something Charles Ponzi could have dreamt up? A traditional Ponzi scheme “is an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors...
View ArticleWhat the Irish electorate voted for (and what the European people didn’t)
by Marc Morgan On May 31st Ireland grounded further its position as the poster child of the EU. In a referendum on whether to ratify the Union’s ‘Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in...
View ArticleFrom Dr Keynes to Financial Bloodletting
by Antoine Cerisier & Marc Morgan “There is no alternative” (Margaret Thatcher) “Doctors often invent diseases which do not exist” (Eugène Ionesco, Rhinocéros) Bloodleting in the Middle Ages...
View ArticleKeynes and financial blood transfusion: understanding the doctor’s prescription
by Marc Morgan A complement to From Dr Keynes to Financial Bloodletting “I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal” (John Maynard Keynes, 1917). This would certainly be Keynes’...
View ArticleMoney, finance and the structure of a new world order
By Marc Morgan Is there a single small, secret group that controls almost all major world events? In our economically centred world money is the primary conditioning factor of life. Its abundance...
View ArticleInside Job II: ‘One unit of currency, one vote’
By Marc Morgan The IFSC: where the decisions are really made? Earlier this year, formal records were released under the Irish Freedom of Information Act which revealed the intertwined relationship...
View ArticleThere is such a thing as a “free lunch” in economics…and it should be shared
By Marc Morgan “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” (Isaac Newton, 1676) A simple idea, embodied in a proverb, has been at the core of mainstream economic...
View ArticleThe Economist’s war against peace and anything that drifts towards ‘the left’
By Marc Morgan If one picks up one of the latest editions of The Economist newspaper (May 3rd – 9th 2014), a well-respected and influential publication in the business, economics and politics spheres,...
View ArticleTowards a pluralist economics education!
By Marc Morgan Students of the economic science from now 30 countries are leading a much-awaited intellectual rebellion against the current teaching establishment. ‘The International Student Initiative...
View ArticleThe Rethinking Economics Conference: Stressing the Need for Pluralism
By Antoine Cerisier & Marc Morgan The 2014 London Conference on Rethinking Economics In the last weekend of June, we attended the Rethinking Economics Conference organised at UCL by the grassroots...
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