----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Institute for New Economic Thinking <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 7 October 2011, 3:04 Subject: William Lazonick: How Wall Street Hurts the Innovative Enterprise + Woodford and Davidson respond to Kay Click to view this email in a browser Hi Robert Searle, Today we present you the latest video of our grantee interview series "30 Way to Be an Economist", as well as direct responses from Michael Woodford and Paul Davidson to John Kay's recent INET paper "The Map Is Not the Territory." William Lazonick - How Government Helps, and Wall Street Hurts, the Innovative Enterprise Innovation drives economic growth and welfare, and the industrial corporation drives innovation, says William Lazonick. But just how do corporations innovate? The key idea is commitment. People with knowledge of and experience in particular industries commit to a business model that ventures into unknown territory. The main problem is that modern financiers are not prepared to support commitment, and the modern executive pushes for stock buy-backs -- that is how Wall Street undermines innovation. Understanding how organization drives innovation -- this is new economic thinking.Link to video Michael Woodford: What's Wrong With Economic Models? A Response to John Kay Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University, takes issue with the rational expectations postulate. A researcher's aspiration to internal consistency and to explanation of people’s choices in terms of individual rationality, he says, does not imply the postulate of rational expectations. The future of macro may well make "the formation and revision of expectations an object of analysis in its own right."Link to blog post Paul Davidson: A Response to John Kay Davidson, Editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and Visiting Scholar at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, takes issue with the “classical” axioms, in particular with what he calls the "ergodic axiom": the notion that the future is predetermined by the past and present state of affairs, that past and knowable probability distributions govern future events. He praises rigor, consistency, and the deductive approach, but says the classical axioms are inapplicable to the world we live in: “The financial crisis of 2007-2009 should have been sufficient empirical evidence to indicate that the axiomatic basis of the mainstream theory needs to be replaced.”Link to blog post Sincerely,Perry MehrlingINET Senior Advisor Please do not reply to this message. This email was generated automatically and responses are not monitored. History of Economics Playground Progress in Economics: A Commentby YANN GIRAUDFor an historical point of view, first, I think it is important to understand that what we call "progress" is something that has changed dramatically over time...Bretton Woods, Past and Present: 3. Models in Economicsby PEDRO DUARTE with video produced by THE KIDSI cannot resist but to start quoting Mary Morgan's second entry to the second edition of the New Palgrave: “Modeling became the dominant methodology of economics during the 20th century.” ... 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