Simply Wrong? The Money Multiplier (part II)

In this sequel, Marat Markert advances three arguments why misunderstanding money, banking and the monetary system might have repercussions beyond the pages of a textbook, and what to do about it.

Dr. M. Markert • December 06, 2021

Simply Wrong? The Money Multiplier (Part I of II)

The journalist Henry Louis Mencken once quipped: “Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible — and wrong.”

Dr. M. Markert • October 25, 2021

The Great Reset: A Few Questions

An ecological “mistake” produced COVID-19 and now it is exacerbating all kinds of existing problems: an increase in income and gender inequality, social conflict and domestic violence. Behind the health, ecological and social crisis, many have also perceived a crisis of neoliberalism.

• April 21, 2021

Crisis begets crisis? Assessing the crisis response in the EU

Crisis begets opportunity, they say. But looking at how the EU member states have responded to the economic fallouts of the Covid-19 pandemic, one might wonder whether the crisis response will beget another crisis.

Dr. M. Markert • May 15, 2020

Economists crossing disciplinary borders: trespassers or trailblazers?

Are economists colonising other disciplines? The end of economic schizophrenia is nigh … or so we think.

Dr. M.G. Palacio Ludeña • March 13, 2018

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Simply Wrong? The Money Multiplier (part II)

Simply Wrong? The Money Multiplier (Part I of II)

The Great Reset: A Few Questions

Crisis begets crisis? Assessing the crisis response in the EU

Economists crossing disciplinary borders: trespassers or trailblazers?