sanity, humanity and science post-autistic economics review Issue no. 42, 18 May 2007 back issues at www.paecon.net Subscribers: 9,512 from over 150 countries Subscriptions are free. To subscribe, email "subscribe". To unsubscribe, email "unsubscribe". Send to : pae_news@btinternet.com In this issue: - Is there life after Samuelson’s Economics? pdf file Changing the textbooks Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, and Stephen Ziliak ..................................... 2 - Finding the ratchet: The political economy of carbon trading Donald MacKenzie ............................................................................................. 8 - What industries does multiple-equilibrium trade theory recommend? Ian Fletcher ......................................................................................................... 18 - Narrative pluralism Edward Fullbrook .............................................................................................. 22 Notes - The macroeconomics of down-shifting: A suitable case for modelling? John King and Max Wright ................................................................................... 44 - A note on the paper by Alan Goodacre Kurt W. Rothschild ............................................................................................... 46 Opinion - Prizes, not patents Joseph E. Stiglitz .............................................................................................. 48 - Should we aspire to a high score for “economic freedom”? Margaret Legum .................................................................................................. 50 - Submissions, etc. ..................................................................................................... 52 The paperback edition of Real World Economics: A post-autistic economics reader, with 59 chapters, 6 appendixes, 52 contributors and 496 pages, should be available from online bookshops beginning at about the end of June.

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