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Will the Harvard Austerity Error End Economic Sadomasochism?

“It seems unlikely,” anthropologist and author David Graeber writes. “After all, as I and many others have long argued, austerity was never really an economic policy: ultimately, it was always about morality.”

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Massachusetts Economists Discredit Influential Austerity Study

Economists from the University of Massachusetts appear to have debunked a Harvard paper that right-wing politicians have used to push economic austerity policies. The challengers explain where the Harvard economists went wrong in an interview with The Real News Network.

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Debt Is the Problem

It’s not the kind created by government spending on social programs, however, economist Michael Hudson says.

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Money for the People: Comedian Grillo’s Populist Plan for Italy

Default on the public debt, nationalization of the banks, and a citizen dividend could save the Italian economy.

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