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Debating economics

Mark Setterfield (Trinity): Anticipations of the Crisis: On the Similarities Between Post-Keynesian Economics and Regulation Theory. From Review of Economics and Institutions, Charles Wyplosz (CEPR): Debt Sustainability Assessment: Mission Impossible; and Catherine Pattillo, Helene Poirson, and Luca Antonio Ricci (IMF): External Debt and Growth. How inequality damages economies: Research suggests that a more equal world would be more stable. From Philosophy for Business, a review of Civilizing the Economy: A New Economics of Provision by Marvin T. Brown; and Pedro Blas Gonzalez on Ludwig von Mises: Economist and philosophical anthropologist. A review of At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in Turbulent Times by Donald W. Katzner. Wall Street, small business, and the limits of corporate personhood: An interview with Doug Henwood. From Marxist Interventions, Ben Hiller reviews The Great Credit Crash. Sheila Bair on why it's time to break up the "too big to fail" banks: Customers would benefit, the government would benefit, and — believe it or not — the big banks themselves would do better.