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ASSA 2025 part two: the radical – climate, labour and imperialism
In part two of my report on the proceedings of ASSA 2025, I look at the sessions of radical economics organised by the Union of Radical Political Economics. I was unable to attend or link to any of these sessions, so this post is based on a review of the abstracts and papers submitted. Unlike…
ASSA 2025: part one – AI, AI, AI..
Every year, I report on the annual proceedings of ASSA, the Alliance of Social Science Associations, run by the American Economics Association. It is the biggest economics conference in the world, with over 13,000 economics students and professors attending and hundreds of papers presented in sessions over three days. And there are addresses by the…
Forecast 2025: roaring or tepid?
It’s time to make some forecasts on what will happen to the world economy and its major countries in 2025. Many people reckon that it is waste of time making such forecasts as they are never accurate and quite often the opposite happens. Of course, forecasts are wrapped in error, given the many variables involved…
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