ORIGINAL SOURCE: Maike Winters for Radio Netherlands Worldwide, 7 September 2011. Excerpt: Arjo Klamer, Professor of Cultural Economics at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University, is in favour of some form of collateral: “It would be nice if Greece offered Dutch people cheap holidays as collateral. That would stimulate the Greek economy. There would be advantages for everyone. [...]
No Comments ». .From “The Matheo Solution” by Marcel Van Silfhout in the Oman Tribune, 17 August 2011. “Dutch guilder was converted into the euro for a wrong value”
No Comments ». .View post entry, “More on models” by Kurt Schuler, 26 June 2011 on Free Banking. View article, “Accounting as the master metaphor of economics“, by Klamer and McCloskey in the European Accounting Review 1, May, 1992: 145-160.
No Comments ». .See “The Entertainment Superpower and the American Theater of Cruelty at Guantanamo” on OpEdNews by Alexa O’Brien, 4 May 2011.
No Comments ». .SOURCE: CultureMap.com, Nancy Wozny, 24 Dec. 2010.
No Comments ». .View Feasel’s comment View article: “Trading Economics Across the Atlantic” Abstract: Jan Tinbergen and Milton Friedman were both very much inspired making economic theory work, applying it in service of society. The Tinbergen approach – the economist as Social Engineer – was exported to Chicago in the 1940s where one of Tinbergen’s students – Tjalling [...]
No Comments ». .In “Teaching the Principles of Economics: A Proposal for a Multi-Paradigmatic Approach,” Janet Knoedler and Daniel Underwood say: “Buttressing their point is Colander and Arjo Klamer’s excellent survey of graduate students in economics, who complained that they were disappointed with … [continues at Questia.com (subscription required)]. Journal article by Janet T. Knoedler, Daniel A. Underwood; [...]
No Comments ». .View original post in Real World Economics Review, 15 February, 2010. Klamer’s comment: If it is agreed that standard economic representations do not do justice to the complexities of the new economy, how else could we represent an economy that is more about symbols and the production of meanings than about the production of goods [...]
No Comments ». .Klamer: ‘Cultural capital enables us to award meanings to so-called symbolic goods and to lift us up from the drudgery of daily life. It enables intellectuals to have those energizing sparks of insight and, if I understand the theologians well, enable us to experience the grace of God. Immeasurable as it is, cultural capital appears to generate the most important values of all, the values that can give meaning to our life.’
No Comments ». .From Econ Journal Watch (6: 2, May 2009, p. 281) under the heading “Cynicism and Acquiescence” comes: Arjo Klamer (1990, 184) [The Making of an Economist]: ” ‘Of course this assumption is absurd,’ a well-known economist noted during a recent seminar, ‘but, hey, isn’t all we do absurd and utterly unrealistic?’ People laughed, and he [...]
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