Mark Blyth
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Mark McGann Blyth is a Scottish-American political economist. He is currently the William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. At Brown, Blyth additionally directs the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. .. more

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Published May 6th 2025. Everything you ever wanted to know about inflation but were far too busy to ask.

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Start the week with Part Two of of my chat with Leah Downey on her book, Our Money: Monetary Policy As If Democracy Matters, and all the stuff that has gone on since the summer...
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Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part two)
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
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The Rhodes Center Podcast is back. Me and Leah Downey on her wonderful book Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters. This is part one of two. In part two we discuss what happens when democracy starts to get the upper hand. Coming soon: player.captivate.fm/episode/eb5e...
Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part 1)
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
player.captivate.fm

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After getting an absolute monetarist pounding in the WSJ, its nice to see a more balanced review of our Inflation book in Project Syndicate: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/why-...

A long read, and a good one.
Inflationary Tales
Jonathan Levy explains how economic shocks exposed flaws in monetarist orthodoxy and created room for intellectual innovation.
www.project-syndicate.org

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Indeed. Thanks Cas!

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The wonderful Catherine DeVries has a substack about writing and how all sorts of things are at work to destroy it. She interviews writers about what and how they write. I'm up this week: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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And in today's episode of Carbon Dominance I bring you this: www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...

And this: www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
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