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Political Economy Forum

#65 - Economism and Bad Economics - w/ James Kwak

Nov 22, 2021
38:40

In this episode, Prof. James Kwak of UConn School of Law speaks to Nicolas Wittstock about the impact of overly simple economic models on policy debates. James Kwak's 2017 book Economism makes the forceful case that simplistic Econ 101 ideas pervade policy discourse and sometimes even economic policy. 



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