BOSTON – Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have found evidence that a retrovirus that has been linked to schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis may also cause Keynesianism. The ...

One election at a time, voters in Europe are tossing out politicians associated with “austerity”. This week, it was national elections in France and Greece, and state elections in part of Germany.

Henry Farrell and John Quiggan make a pretty fundamental point about Keynesian economics -- it's not a mandate for larger government or larger deficits in general: Contrary to the beliefs of nearly ...

The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1086: “Keynesianism doesn’t work because it discards local information.” Sign up for the newsletter here. You can hone in on Keynesianism or zoom ...

STAMFORD, Conn. (MarketWatch) — I do not subscribe to the conventional economics view of how the world works. If there are two theories that animate the Powers That Be when it comes to defining ...

Science consists of theories that can be falsified (proved wrong) by evidence. In fact, a single inconsistent data point will (and should) invalidate even the most cherished and long-standing ...

Last week in the FT Martin Wolf sounded a Keynesian battle cry, passionately urging governments to redouble their efforts to use cheap funds to raise future wealth and so improve the fiscal position ...

Last week, Paul Krugman, a Princeton faculty member and New York Times columnist, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. This is the moral equivalent of being hailed as a great ...

John Maynard Keynes, the foremost economic father of modern liberalism, argued that governments should spend against the wind, building economic surpluses in times of growth so they could splurge ...

Here's a great example of using the right concepts and formulating a complex thought in a simple, retainable way. It's from Daniel Henninger's column in Thursday's Wall Street Journal: "The U.S. and ...