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A Note from the Editors: Welcome people! You may or may not have seen our article in The Guardian last week: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/24/students-post-crash-economics This article is key for us, and gives ...

The theme of the second reading group was Institutional Economics, which focuses on the role of laws, culture, norms and organisations in determining how economies and populations function. The reading ...

In the last of our lecture series, our guest speaker Ha-Joon Chang gave a great emphasis on letting the spectrum of schools of economic thought “cross-fertilise” to promote the kind ...

We’ve recently jumped across this rather interesting series of videos on website called Positive Money, aiming to strip away the layers of mystery that surround the banking system and roll ...

For a triumphant few years, mainstream economists had blindly met the word “economy” with incessant and certain optimism. They were quick to champion ‘bullet-proof’ economic models that promised global financial ...

This Monday, the self-professed heterodox economist, Ha-Joon Chang, came over to Manchester to deliver a speech to an assorted group of students, a speech designed to sketch out the significant, ...

If you’ve ever stopped to consider how the humble, under-appreciated washing machine has changed the world, you may just be on your way to thinking like a heterodox economist. However, ...

The first reading was the article What Is Neoclassical Economics? by Christian Arnsperger & Yanis Varoufakis, which tries to identify the defining features of neoclassical or ‘mainstream’ economics so that ...

Economists across the world, welcome! Here at the Post-Crash blog, we aim to open a space for new economic thinking, a space for us all to discuss and engage in ...