Quiggin on Zombie Economics

John Quiggin of Crooked Timber and the author of Zombie Economics talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about ideas in economics that should stay dead and buried. Quiggin argues that many economic theories such as the Great Moderation, the efficient markets hypothesis and others have been discredited by recent events and should be relegated to the graveyard. Roberts challenges some of Quiggin's claims and wonders whether proposed alternatives might do even worse than the policies Quiggin is criticizing. Much of the conversation focuses on the role of government in the financial sector and how that might be improved going forward.

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Quiggin on Zombie Economics is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2010 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

This episode is 1:04:53 long.

This episode was published on Nov 1, 2010.

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