from Dean Baker That’s the question Republicans in Congress are debating as they struggle to put Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill (BBB)” in final form to pass and send to his desk in the next few days. The essence of the bill should be well known at this point. It extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts…

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08.07.2025

Mainstream economics — kick it over! | Real-World Economics Review Blog

from Lars Syll The more I learned about economics, the more I discovered a landscape that is surpassingly strange. Like the land of Mordor, it is dominated by a single theoretical edifice that arose like a volcano early in the 20th century and still dominates the landscape. The edifice is based upon a conception of…

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09.07.2025

The Strain is too much | Real-World Economics Review Blog

from Peter Radford Picking up where I left off … And, just for fun … We need more billionaires! No. Really. That’s the message delivered by Michael Strain last week in the Financial Times. After all, where would be without them? Strain is, as we all know, associated with the American Enterprise Institute, and is…

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12.07.2025

Science, politics, and ideology in economics | Real-World Economics Review Blog

from Lars Syll During my whole career, I have considered myself somewhat of a schizophrenic, which might be a universal characteristic. On the one hand, I was interested in science qua science, and I have tried — successfully I hope — not to let my ideological viewpoints contaminate my scientific work. On the other, I felt deeply…

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