The ethics of a Brexit referendum Eric Lonergan 25th January 2019 Articles, Economic History, Sample Of One 3 The debate over Brexit has been dominated by propaganda. To date, I have had sympathy with the one ethical argument, whi...
Draghi’s law of conditional safety Eric Lonergan 24th January 2019 Finance & Asset Pricing, Money in Europe 1 Understanding the Eurozone The fundamental macroeconomic policy challenge faced by the Eurozone is how to have a risk f...
More on post-interest rate monetary policy Eric Lonergan 15th December 2018 Definitions of Money, Finance & Asset Pricing, Helicopter Money, Monetary Policy Accounting objections to cash transfers don’t add up, and if CBs bought equity they could reduce inequality There is ...
Functional finance and fiscal rules – a synthesis (Part II) Eric Lonergan 5th November 2018 Definitions of Money, Helicopter Money, Monetary Policy, Theory & Other Problems 16 Introduction A curious argument has broken out over the Labour’s proposed fiscal rule. Some advocates of functional fin...
MMT and fiscal rules (part I) – a prologue Eric Lonergan 28th October 2018 Definitions of Money, Monetary Policy, Theory & Other Problems 11 When I explained the essential tenets of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to Ben Bernanke, over dinner in Washington, he rep...
Why is universalism losing? Eric Lonergan 12th October 2018 Theory & Other Problems 5 There is a tension in all enlightened ‘identity politics’. How do we combat discrimination without accepting the premise...
