Unlearning the macroeconomic lessons of the 2010s

Well, some of them, anyway.

Note: I’ll be traveling from the 24th through the 28th, so expect posting to be a bit lighter during those days. Back in the early days of my first blog, I used to encounter a British guy who went by the pseudonym of “Unlearning Economics”, who is now a YouTube pundit. His criticisms of econ were very standard, well-worn British socialist stuff (if you follow British econ debates, which I do not recommend, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about). But his moniker stuck with me, because in the 2010s it felt like we were all unlearning economics, or at least the part of economics than…

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