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A
Guide to What’s Wrong with Economics edited by Edward Fullbrook.
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Contents
Introduction:
Broadband versus narrowband economics
Edward Fullbrook University of the West of England, UK
Part I
Basic
Problems
The quarrelsome boundaries
of economics
Hugh Stretton University of Adelaide, Australia
Modern
economics: the problem and a solution
Tony Lawson Cambridge University, UK
The pitfalls of mainstream economic reasoning (and
teaching)
Michael A. Bernstein
University of California,
San Diego, USA
Neoclassical economic
theory: a special and not a general case
Paul Ormerod Volterra
Consulting, UK
Where do
economies come from? The missing story
Anne Mayhew University
of Tennessee, USA
Can
economics start from the individual alone?
Geoffrey M.
Hodgson University
of Hertfordshire, UK
Part II
Micro
Nonsense
Are you rational?
Edward Fullbrook University of the West of England, UK
Five pieces of advice for students studying
microeconomics
Emmanuelle Benicourt École
des Hautes Études des Siences Sociales, France
How mainstream economists
model choice, versus how we behave, and why it matters
Peter E.
Earl University
of Queensland, Australia
Managerial
economics: economics of
management or economics for managers?
Sashi Sivramkrishna Foundation to Aid Industrial Recovery, India
Part III
Macro
Nonsense
Why do
we have separate courses in “micro” and “macro” economics ?
Ozgur
Gun Université de Reims
Champagne Ardenne, France
The
“natural” rate of unemployment
James G.
Devine Loyola
Marymount University, USA
How to look at economics
critically: some suggestions
Renato Di Ruzza Université de Aix-Marseille, France
Joseph Halevi University of Sydney, Australia
and Université Pierre Mendès
France, France
Part IV
Ethical
Voids and Social Pathologies
Teaching
economics as if ethics mattered
Charles K.
Wilber University
of Notre Dame, USA
Economics
as ideology and the need for pluralism
Peter Söderbaum Mälardalen University, Sweden
The “efficiency” illusion
Richard
Wolff University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
“There
are none so blind . . .
Susan F. Feiner University of Southern Maine, USA
Part V
Misuse of
Mathematics and Statistics
Can
mathematics be used successfully in economics?
Donald Gillies King’s College London, UK
Is there something to expect from game theory?
Bernard Guerrien Université Paris I, France
Improbable,
Incorrect or Impossible: The persuasive but flawed mathematics
of microeconomics
Steve Keen
University of Western Sydney, Australia
The significance of the
economics research paper
Stephen T. Ziliak Roosevelt University, USA
Part VI
Category
Mistakes Regarding Wealth and Illth
Changing visions of humans’ place in
the world and the need for an Ecological Economics
Robert Costanza The University of Vermont, USA
Ecological Economics: The concept of scale and its
relation to allocation, distribution, and uneconomic growth
Herman E. Daly University of Maryland, USA
What's
wrong with GDP and growth? The need for alternative indicators
Jean Gadrey Université Lille,
France
Part VII
Globalist Distortions
What is
Wrong with the “Official History of Capitalism”? - with special reference to the debates on globalisation
and economic development
Ha-Joon Chang Cambridge University,
UK
Should the study of transnational companies be part of
the economics syllabus?
Grazia Ietto-Gillies London South Bank
University, UK