Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which will guarantee business success. But business is far too complicated, far too difficult an activity to distil into… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The second part of the New Right's policy package has been the belief that free-market solutions are always best. It is this latter view… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The behavior of the economy as a whole, at the aggregate, macro-level, is built up from the individual equations at the micro-level. — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but between the… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible. — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking. — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
The model of competitive equilibrium which has been discussed so far is set in a timeless environment. People and companies all operate in a… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
