Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Top 30 Heterodox Keynesian/MMT Economics Blogs

Updated

I have already drawn attention to a list of the top 40 Austrian economics blogs.

In response, here is my list of top 30 heterodox Keynesian/MMT economics blogs and web resources. It is not based on objective criteria like number of web hits, but is very much a subjective list, on the basis of how popular various sites seem to be and (in my view) their importance:
I. Post Keynesian Blogs

(1) Debt Deflation, Steve Keen
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/

(2) Post Keynesian Economics Study Group
http://www.postkeynesian.net/

(3) Naked Keynesianism
http://nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/

(4) Lars P. Syll’s Blog
http://larspsyll.wordpress.com/

(5) Philip Pilkington, Fixing the Economists
http://fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com/

(6) Thoughts on Economics, Robert Vienneau
http://robertvienneau.blogspot.com/

(7) Social Democracy for the 21st Century
http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/

(8) Dr. Thomas Palley, PhD. in Economics (Yale University)
http://www.thomaspalley.com/

(9) Debtonation.org, Ann Pettifor blog
http://www.debtonation.org/

(10) Ramanan, The Case For Concerted Action
http://www.concertedaction.com/


II. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)/Neochartalism

(11) New Economic Perspectives
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/

(12) Billy Blog, Bill Mitchell
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/

(13) Mike Norman Economics Blog
http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/

(14) Warren Mosler, The Center of the Universe
http://moslereconomics.com/

(15) Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE)
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/


III. Other Heterodox Blogs and Resources

(16) Prime, Policy Research in Macroeconomics
http://www.primeeconomics.org/

(17) Michael Hudson
http://michael-hudson.com/

(18) New Economics Foundation
http://www.neweconomics.org/

(19) Unlearningeconomics Blog
http://unlearningeconomics.wordpress.com/

(20) Yanis Varoufakis, Thoughts for the Post-2008 World
http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/

(21) Heteconomist.com
http://heteconomist.com/

(22) Real-World Economics Review Blog
http://rwer.wordpress.com/

(23) Econospeak Blog
http://econospeak.blogspot.com/

(24) James Galbraith
http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/JG/publications.html

(25) Robert Skidelsky’s Official Website
http://www.skidelskyr.com/

(26) The Other Canon
http://www.othercanon.org/

(27) Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
http://www.levyinstitute.org/

(28) Multiplier Effect, Levy Economics Institute Blog
http://www.multiplier-effect.org/

(29) John Quiggin
http://johnquiggin.com/

(30) The Progressive Economics Forum
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/


Staff Pages of Post Keynesians
(1) Paul Davidson, Holly Chair of Excellence in Political Economy, Emeritus
http://econ.bus.utk.edu/department/davidson.htm

(2) Marc Lavoie, Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa
http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/eco/eng/profdetails.asp?id=64

(3) Mark Hayes, Robinson College, Cambridge
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/mgh37/

18 comments:

  1. I don't see how New Deal 2.0 is 'heterodox' (despise that term by the way), I've been reading the Rortybomb blog on that site for a number of years and there is nothing particularly unorthodox about its approach.

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    1. Does not Marshall Auerback blog there? He did the last time I checked.

      Marshall Auerback is a most eloquent supporter of MMT.

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    2. dear lord keynes,

      not any more:
      http://www.nextnewdeal.net/marshall-auerback

      for some background:
      http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=14930

      early on, when lynn parramore, founding editor, was there (she is now at alternet) new deal 2.0 was pretty good. nowadays (last two years) there are some good blogs (james galbraith) sprinkled in among the crap (bo cutter).

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  2. Submitting some other names for your review:

    Stephen Kinsella
    www.stephenkinsella.net
    I think he is doing some very interesting work on making Stock Flow Consistent models (a la Godley & Lavoie) as viable policy tools and he has started doint that based on the Ireland economy thanks to an INET grant.

    Ramanan
    http://www.concertedaction.com/
    His website is more a soap box for his thoughts rather than forum for discussion but I find it illuminating.

    John Weeks
    http://jweeks.org/
    Synthesis of Keynes and Marx that is more relevant today than ever before.

    John Smithin
    http://dept.econ.yorku.ca/~jsmithin/
    An old prof whom I did not understand when I took his monetary economics course many years ago but whom I understand far better today.

    http://sfc-models.net/
    Good resource for those interested in Wynne Godley's work and carrying on with it.

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    1. Thanks for these links. I might add some of these.

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  3. ...The Illusionist is very disappointed given that he's interviewed most prominent PKers and published some (possibly) original articles on Naked Capitalism.com...

    Also THE original outlet for the MMT folks. But we're humble like that. It's classy...

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    1. OK, that was an oversight!
      I will edit this list and add you.

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    2. Illusionist,

      Just to be perfectly clear: you are the Philip Pilkington, author of this:

      http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/07/philip-pilkington-market-monetarism-or-an-attempt-to-speed-up-the-decline-in-real-wages.html#Blogroll

      Is there a regular blog or web address where you blog?

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  4. Lord Keynes: Why do you consider Steve Keen to be of more importance than Paul Davidson? Just curious.

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  5. (1) he has developed Minsky's FIH and Fisher's debt deflation theory in important ways, and
    (2) he is very active in blogging and media appearances

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  6. Submitting one more for your consideration (Real Deal Economics): realdealecon.blogspot.com

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  7. But Minsky never thought of himself as a Post Keynesian.. He always told me he was, or at least wanted to be, thought of as a just "Keynesian" like Paul Samuelson and Bob Solow. [For example, he never eve submitted a manuscript to be published in the Journal of post Keynesian Economics.]
    In fact Minsky's whole thesis of financial fragility is antithetical to Keynes's claim that the faults of an entrepreneurial economy (i.e., its "failure to provide full employment nd its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of income and wealth) is due to uncertainty about the future.

    Minsky associated his financial fragility analysis as merely an explanation of the "business cycle" where the first stage of finance always was associated with a full employment society.

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    1. Professor Davidson,

      It is an honour to have a comment from you. I have read your paper “Setting the Record Straight on ‘A History of Post Keynesian Economics’” (Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 26.2 [2003–2004] 245–272) where you discuss Minsky.

      Nevertheless it is not true to say that Minsky did have some serious criticisms of the neoclassical synthesis?

      I think Vernengo has shown this in his paper:

      Matias Vernengo, “The Return of Vulgar Economics: A Rejoinder to Colander, Holt and Rosser,” Working Paper No: 2011-14.
      http://ideas.repec.org/p/uta/papers/2011_14.html

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    2. The social cycles of finance seem to be one of the slower-developing parts of economic theory.

      I think I know why. Financier behavior is driven by a *very small number of people* who run banks, brokerages, etc. Barely enough people to describe large aggregates. The same is arguably true of industrial firm owners/controllers (also a group whose behavior is very poorly described by any form of economics). Group psychology seems to be the best approach to these small groups of people with disproportionate impact on the economy; frankly I think Veblen took this approach.

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  8. Imagining history has been relatively active for 2 years now. Its a grad student (me) with stuff on economic history and legal history. I'm at UMass. The blog was linked to by Mankiw Re: the Anti-Mankiw movement.

    HTTP://imagininghistory.blogspot.com

    Not very active right now as I prepare to go on the job market this year...

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  9. You've forgot a BIG one. Yanis Varoufakis. He has a blog as well as twitter.

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  10. You left out the biggest of all: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/ - also a great source for others.

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