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Lars Pålsson Syll

 

Bubble Economics: Australian Land Speculation 1830 – 2013

Paul D. Egan and Philip Soos

 

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Steve Keen

 

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Jorge Buzaglo

 

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issue no. 107

 

How entropy drives us towards degrowth
Crelis Rammelt
2

 

“It is much too soon to act “ – Economists and the climate change
Giandomenico Scarpelli
8

 

Addressing the climate and inequality crises:
An emergency market plan simulation

Jorge Buzaglo
 and Leo Buzaglo Olofsgård
21

 

Stocking up on wealth … concentration
Blair Fix

40

 

Back to the past: income distribution in America
Ahmad Seyf
57

 

Blinded by science: The empirical case for quantum models in finance
David Orrell
68

 

Critique of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged political economy and its place in neoliberalism
Rafael Galvão de Almeida
 and Leonardo Gomes de Deus
80

 

Twenty-first century money: Huber and the case for CBDC
Jamie Morgan

97

 

Book review of Chang, Ha-Joon, (2022) Edible Economics
Junaid Jahangir

110

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.
116

 

 

 

Issue no. 106
Special Issue and now this book

Economics and the Biophysical Limits to Economic Growth

 

How can we construct an economics consistent
with the biophysical limits to economic growth?

Invitation
4

PART I – PARTIAL ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION

Economics as if ecology mattered
Peter Newell
6

An economic theory compatible with life processes and physical laws
James Galbraith
14

Supporting well-being over time: Six kinds of capital required in a healthy economy
Neva Goodwin
20

Oikonomics and the limits to growth
Andri Werner Stahel
28

Reorienting economics to social ecological provisioning
Clive L. Spash and Clíodhna Ryan
35

An economics of deep transformations
Hubert Buch-Hansen, Iana Nesterova, Max Koch
43

Will economics ever become more…ecological?
Richard Parker
48

Towards a relational economics
Tony Lawson
55

Putting energy back into economics
Steve Keen
65

Against the clock: Economics 101 and the concept of time
Jamie Morgan
79

The adoption of “complexity” in economics
Maria Alejandra Madi
88

Biophysical limit and metabolic growth
Ping Chen
94

Complex economies embedded in the biosphere with the commons restored
Geoff Davies
107

Sharing planet Earth: overcoming speciesism in economics
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
114
 

PART TWO: BACKGROUND CONSIDERATIONS

On capitalogenic climate crisis
Jason W. Moore
124

Unlimited limits and the challenges of living in reciprocity with nature
Richard Norgaard
135

Positivism and the plight of the planet
Asad Zaman
140

Economics needs to ditch most of what it does and . . . .
Heikki Patomäki
149

Economics of abundance with degrowth
Susan Paulson
158

Who gets what, how and why?  The system of provision approach
Kate Bayliss and Ben Fine
167

Liveability within planetary limits
Luca Calafati and Karel Williams
173

Demographics, the economy and the environment: an MMT approach
Randall Wray and Yeva Nersisyan
180

On ecology and economics
Victor Beker
189

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.
196

 

Issue no. 105   October 2023

 

In Praise of Rebellion?
Peter Radford     2

 

Professor Stiglitz’s contributions to debates on intellectual property
Dean Baker     12

 

America’s trade deficits: blame U.S. policies – starting with tax laws
Kenneth E. Austin     25

 

Extending the concept of inflation beyond consumer prices
Merijn Knibbe     46

 

History and origin of money in MMT and Austrian Economics:
The difference methodology makes?

Phil Armstrong     57

 

Ownership illusions: When ownership really matters for economic analysis
Cameron K. Murray     74

 

From original institutionalism to the economics of conventions and inventing value:
An interview with Dave Elder-Vass

Dave Elder-Vass and Jamie Morgan     87

 

Some questions to Edward Fullbrook regarding his book
Market-value: Its measurement and metric

Oliver Schlaudt     111

 

Hopefully Schlaudt’s questions about Market-value are the first of many
Edward Fullbrook     118


End Matter     122

 

 

 

 

Issue no. 103 – 31 March 2023

 

How to Make the Oil Industry Go Bust
Blair Fix     2

 

Technological Change and Strategic Sabotage:
A Capital as Power Analysis of the US Semiconductor Business

Christopher Mouré     26

 

Do copyrights and paywalls on academic journals violate the US Constitution?
Spencer Graves     56

 

Mainstream economics – the poverty of fictional storytelling
Lars P. Syll     61

 

Why do economists persist in using false theories?
Asad Zaman     84

 

Revisiting the Principles of Economics through Disney
Junaid Jahangir     89

 

On the Employer-Employee Relationship
David Ellerman     111

 

Why is yield-curve inversion such a good predictor of recession?
Philip George     122

 

Book Review: Thomas Picketty, A Brief History of Equality
Junaid Jahangir     128

 

Book Review: John KomlosFoundations of Real-World Economics, 3rd Edition
Alan Freeman     132

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.           135

 

 

 

Issue no. 102 – 18 December 2022

 

Ecological Economics in Four Parables
Herman Daly          2

 

The Paradigm in the Iron Mask:
Toward an Institutional Ecology of Ecological Economics

Gregory A. Daneke         16 

 

The Towering Problem of Externality-Denying Capitalism
Duncan Austin          30 

 

Have We Passed Peak Capitalism?
Blair Fix          55

 

A Probabilistic Theory of Supply and Demand
John Komlos          89

 

Unicorn, Yeti, Nessie, and Neoclassical Market
– Legends and Empirical Evidence

Ibrahim Filiz, Jan René Judek, Marco Lorenz, Markus Spiwoks          97

 

On the Efficacy of Saving
George H. Blackford          119

 

Occupation Freedoms: Comparing Workers and Slaves
M. S. Alam          137

 

Book Review: Steve Keen, (2021) The New Economics: A Manifesto
Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan          156

 

Book Review: Fullbrook, E. and Morgan, J. (2020)
Modern Monetary Theory and its Critics

Junaid B. Jahangir          164

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.           171

 

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Issue no. 101 – 15 September 2022

 

Two conceptions of the nature of money 
Tony Lawson          2

 

How power shapes our thoughts
Asad Zaman         20

 

SARS-CoV-2: The Neoliberal Virus
Imad A. Moosa          27

 

The giant blunder at the heart of General Equilibrium Theory
Philip George          38

 

A life in development economics and political economy: An interview with Jayati Ghosh
Jayati Ghosh and Jamie Morgan          44

 

John Komlos and the Seven Dwarfs
Junaid B. Jahangir          65

 

A three-dimensional production possibility frontier with stress
John Komlos           76

 

Free trade theory and reality:
How economists have ignored their own evidence for 100 years

Jeff Ferry          83

 

The choice of currency and policies for an independent Scotland:
A debate through the lenses of different economic paradigms

Alberto Paloni          90

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.       107

 

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Issue no. 100 – 30 June 2022

 

Introduction to RWER issue 100          3

 

Real Science Is Pluralist           issue no. 5 – 2001
Edward Fullbrook         5

 

Is There Anything Worth Keeping in Standard Microeconomics?          issue no. 12 – 2002
Bernard Guerrien          11

 

How Reality Ate Itself: Orthodoxy, Economy & Trust          issue no. 18 – 2003
Jamie Morgan          14

 

What is Neoclassical Economics?         issue no. 6 – 2006
Christian Arnsperger and Yanis Varoufakis          20

 

A financial crisis on top of the ecological crisis: Ending the monopoly of neoclassical economics         issue no. 49 – 2009
Peter Söderbaum          30

 

U.S. “quantitative easing” is fracturing the Global Economy          issue no. 55 – 2010
Michael Hudson          41

 

Capitalism and the destruction of life on Earth: Six theses on saving the
humans
          issue no. – 64
Richard Smith          53

 

Secular stagnation and endogenous money          issue no. 66 – 2014
Steve Keen          81

 

Piketty and the resurgence of patrimonial capitalism          issue no. 69 – 2014
Jayati Ghosh          92

 

Capital and capital: the second most fundamental confusion          issue no. 69 – 2014
Edward Fullbrook          99

 

Deductivism – the fundamental flaw of mainstream economics          issue no. 74 – 2016
Lars Pålsson Syll          112

 

Radical paradigm shifts          issue no. 85 – 2018
Asad Zaman          134

 

Growthism: its ecological, economic and ethical limits          issue no. 87 – 2019
Herman Daly          139

 

Producing ecological economy          issue no. 87 – 2019
Katharine N. Farrell          154

 

Economism and the Econocene: a coevolutionary interpretation          issue no. 87 – 2019
Richard B. Norgaard          164

 

Inequality challenge in pursued economies          issue no. 92 – 2021
Richard C. Koo          184

 

What is economics? A policy discipline for the real world          issue no. 96 – 2021
James K. Galbraith          208

 

Consumerism and the denial of values in economics         issue no. 96 – 2021
Neva Goodwin          224

 

Of Copernican revolutions – and the suddenly-marginal marginal mind at the dawn of the Anthropocene          issue no. 96 – 2021
Richard Parker          242

 

Postscript: RWER is for everyone and no one
Jamie Morgan          264

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.            157

 

 

 

Issue no. 99 – 24 March 2022

 

Keynes’, Piketty’s, and an extensive failure index:Introducing maldevelopment indices
Jorge Buzaglo and Leo Buzaglo Olofsgård           2

 

Externalities, public goods, and infectious diseases
Spencer Graves and Douglas Samuelson           25

 

An essential journey back to the seeds of prosperity in a time of pandemics:
Notes for a renewed agenda in development studies

Fernando García-Quero and Fernando López Castellano           57

 

How resource-cheaply could we live well?
Ted Trainer            64

 

The role of the IMF in a changing global landscape
Jayati Ghosh           80

 

MMT, post-Keynesians and currency hierarchy:
Notes towards a synthesis

Luiz Alberto Vieira            90

 

Why not sovereign money AND job guarantee?
Hongkil Kim and Hunter Griffin            106

 

Performativity, marketization and market-based central banking
Goghie Alexandru-Stefan           125

 

The mathematics of profit maximization is incorrect
Philip George           143

 

The ‘Great Disinflation’:The importance of the ‘China factor’ is overstated
Leon Podkaminer           151

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.            157

 

 

 

Issue no. 98 – 15 December 2021

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101 Textbooks

The riddle of the use of impossible examples in microeconomics textbooks
Emmanuelle Bénicourt, Sophie Jallais and Camille Noûs

2

101 Textbooks

The 1-2-3 toolbox of mainstream economics:
promising everything, delivering nothing

Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan

23

Capitalists are dispensable, laborers are not
M. Shahid Alam

49

Redistributing income through hierarchy
Blair Fix

58

The Becker model of discrimination is anachronistic and should no longer be taught
John Komlos

87

“Susan Strange saw the financial crisis coming, Your Majesty”
Nat Dyer

92

Measuring economic transformation:
what to make of constant price sectoral GDP

Adam Fforde

112

Booming wealth alongside fiscal concerns about ageing populations
David R Richardson

135

Price indices suitable for the monetary policy
Carlos Guerrero de Lizardi

149

Interview
From the political economy of financial regulation and economic governance to climate change
Jamie Morgan with Andrew P. Baker

169

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc

203

 

 

Issue no. 97 – 22 September 2021

 

Has economics become a new theology?
Some comments about the practice of modern economists and medieval theologians

Andri W. Stahel

 

2

Beyond dollar creditocracy: A geopolitical economy

Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson

 

20

A black-swan shock exposes the deep fissures, endemic imbalances,
and structural weaknesses of the U.S. economy

John Komlos

 

40

Fuck the market

Terry Hathaway

 

62

The ritual of capitalization

Blair Fix

 

78

Economic hypocrisies in the pandemic age

Raphael Sassower

 

96

The politics of economics:
Post-structuralist discourse theory as a new theoretical perspective for heterodox economics

Shu Shimizu

 

106

Putting Minsky into space: The geography of asset price bubbles in the United States, 1994–2018

John Posey

 

123

How financial bubbles are fueled by money creation a.k.a. bank lending:
An explanation for public education

Ib Ravn

 

143

China, the exception that proves the growthist rule? Richard Smith on China’s contribution to climate emergency 

REVIEW of Smith, R. (2020) China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse. London: Pluto Press

Jamie Morgan

 

155

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc

.

 

 

Issue no. 96 – 29 July 2021

 

The future: Thanks for the memories 
Jamie Morgan

2

Of Copernican revolutions – and the suddenly-marginal marginal mind
at the dawn of the Anthropocene

Richard Parker

28

Post-economics: Reconnecting reality and morality to escape the Econocene
Richard B. Norgaard

49

What is economics? A policy discipline for the real world 
James K. Galbraith

67

Beyond indifference: An economics for the future 
Lukas Bäuerle

82

Growth through contraction: Conceiving an eco-economy 
William E. Rees

98

Interrogating the holy grail of productivity growth 
Jayati Ghosh

119

Changing role of neoliberalism across the stages of economic development 
Richard C. Koo

127

Consumerism and the denial of values in economics 
Neva Goodwin

151

Beyond the growth imperative and neoliberal doxa
Max Koch, Jayeon Lindellee and Johanna Alkan Olsson

168

Writing forward Georgescu-Roegen’s critique of Marx 
Katharine N. Farrell

184

Three possible new paradigms

Humanistic economics, a new paradigm for the 21st century 
John Komlos

201

A future social-ecological economics 
Clive L. Spash & Adrien O.T. Guisan

220

Oikonomics: towards a new paradigm in economics 
Andri W. Stahel

234

Economics 999
Edward Fullbrook

256

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.

261

 

 

Issue no. 95 – 22 March 2021

Is a capitalist steady-state economy possible? Is it better in socialism?

Theodore P. Lianos

2

The “ideal market” as a normative figure of thought. Analysing the reasoning of the World Bank pro land grabbing

Tanja von Egan-Krieger

11

The rise of human capital theory

Blair Fix

29

How downward redistribution makes America richer: 

An empirical, “money view” model of spending, wealth concentration, and wealth accumulation

Steve Roth

42

The moral dilemma and asymmetric economic impact of COVID-19

Constantine E. Passaris

62

Pigou and the dropped stitch of economics

Duncan Austin

71

Third world development: the simpler way critique of conventional theory and practice

Ted Trainer  

87

The American Gordian Knot and Alexander the Great is not in sight

John Komlos

103

Unbridgeable: why political economists cannot accept capital as power

Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan

109

A modest proposal for generating useful analyses of economies: a brief note

Geoff Davies

118

On the relevance of the Church-Turing Thesis for theoretical economics

Ron Wallace

124

From finance to climate crisis: An interview with Steve Keen

Steve Keen and Jamie Morgan

130

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.

148

 

 

 

 

Issue no. 94 -  22 March 2021

 

Alarm. The evolutionary jump of global political economy needed         2
Hardy Hanappi         
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Neoliberalism must die because it does not serve humanity          27
Nikolaos Karagiannis         
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Climate arsonist Xi Jinping: a carbon-neutral China with a 6% growth rate?          32
Richard Smith         
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All the good things a digital euro could do – and all the bad things it will          53
Norbert Häring         
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Is economics a science?          61
Andri W. Stahel         
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Private equity and public problems in a financialized world: an interview with Rosemary Batt          83
Rosemary Batt and Jamie Morgan         
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Macro: understanding quantitative easing          109
Edward Fullbrook         
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The hemispheres of finance: GDP and non-GDP finance          113
Joseph Huber         
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The digital twin of the economy: proposed tool for policy design and evaluation          140
Patrick Pobuda         
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Heterodoxy, positivism and economism.
On the futility of overcoming neoliberalism on positive grounds          149
Ulrich Thielemann         
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Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.          186

 

 

Issue no. 93    28 September 2020   

 

Why are the rich getting richer while the poor stay poor?

Andri W. Stahel          download

 

Machina-economicus or homo-complexicus: 

Artificial intelligence and the future of economics?

Gregory A. Daneke          download

 

Maybe there never was a unipower

John Benedetto         download

 

Empirical rejection of mainstream economics’ core postulates –

on prices, firms’ profits and markets structure

Joaquim Vergés-Jaime          download

 

Humanism or racism: pilot project Europe at the crossroads

Hardy Hanappi          download

 

Towards abolishing the institution of renting persons:

A different path for the Left

David Ellerman          download

 

Simpler way transition theory

Ted Trainer          download

 

Book Review

    Degrowth: necessary, urgent and good for you

    Jamie Morgan          download

 

Minimum wages and the resilience of neoclassical labour market economics.

Some preliminary evidence from Germany

Arne Heise          download

 

Prelude to a critique of the Ricardian Equivalence Doctrine

Leon Podkaminer          download

 

Public debt “causing” inflation? Very unlikely

Leon Podkaminer          download

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.

 

 

Issue no. 92    29 June 2020   

Special Issue The Inequality Crisis

 

The three options: an introduction

Edward Fullbrook          download

 

Rethinking the word economy as a two-block hierarchy

Robert Wade          download

 

Inequality in a time of pandemic

Jayati Ghosh          download

 

The United States of Inequality                        

David Ruccio          download

 

Fixing capitalism: stopping inequality at its source 

Dean Baker          download

 

Inequality challenge in pursued economies

Richard Koo          download 

 

Inequality under globalization: state of knowledge and implications for economics

James Galbraith and Jaehee Choi          download

 

Thomas Piketty’s changing views on inequality  

Steve Pressman          download  

 

Inequality: What we think, what we don’t think and why we acquiesce

Jamie Morgan          download  

 

The art of balance: The search for equaliberty and solidarity                     

Peter Radford          download

 

Globalization, digitization, shareholder capitalism and the summits of contemporary wealth

David A Westbrook          download  

 

Poverty and income inequality: a complex relationship

Victor A. Beker          download 

 

The inequalities that could not happen: What the Cold War did to economics

Erik Reinert          download 

 

I Love You - investing for intergenerational wellbeing

Girol Karacaoglu          download 

 

Inequality in development: the 2030 Agenda, SDG 10 and the role of redistribution

Holger Apel          download

 

Inequality and the case for UBI

Geoff Crocker          download

 

Inequality and morbid symptoms of a financialised system

Ann Pettifor          download

 

Why COVID-19 Is the Great Unequalizer

Marshall Auerback          download

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.

 

 

Issue no. 91   16 March 2020      download whole issue  

Complexity, the evolution of macroeconomic thought, and micro foundations          2

David Colander          download

 

Models and reality: How did models divorced from reality become epistemologically acceptable?          20

Asad Zaman          download

 

ECONOMICS 101 (editors invite more papers on Economics 101)           45

The value of “thinking like an economist”

Bernard C. Beaudreau          download       

 

An essay on the putative knowledge of textbook economics          53

Lukas Bäuerle         download

 

World population: the elephant in the living room          70

Theodore P. Lianos           download

 

The carbon economy – rebuilding the building blocks of economics and science          83

John E. Coulter          download

 

Breaking the golden handcuffs: recreating markets for tenured faculty          91

M. Shahid Alam          download

 

Reinforcing the Euro with national units of account          102

Gerald Holtham          download

 

Neoliberalism vs. China as model for the developing world          108

Ali Kadri          download

 

Classifying “globally integrated” production firms from a worker/citizen perspective          128

John B. Benedett          download

 

REVIEW ESSAY

Tony Lawson, economics and the theory of social positioning          132

Jamie Morgan          download

 

INTERVIEW

Ecological and feminist economics: an interview with Julie A. Nelson          146

Julie A. Nelson and Jamie Morgan          download

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.                   154

 

 

Issue no. 90   9 December 2019      download whole issue  

Making America great again          2
Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan          download

 

American trade deficits and the unidirectionality error          13
Kenneth Austin           download

 

The “Nobel Prize” for Economics 2019… illustrates the nature and inadequacy of conventional economics
Ted Trainer          download          41

 

Greenwish: the wishful thinking undermining the ambition of sustainable business          47
Duncan Austin          download

 

An evolutionary theory of resource distribution         65    
Blair Fix          download

 

The case for the ontology of money as credit: money as bearer or basis of “value”          98
Phil Armstrong and Kalim Siddiqui          download

 

Cross-current, or change in the direction of the mainstream?          119
Arthur M. Diamond, Jr          download

 

Negative natural interest rates and secular stagnation: much ado about nothing?          126
Leon Podkaminer          download

 

BOOK REVIEW
John Komlos's Foundations of Real-World Economics: What every economics student needs to know
Alan Freeman          download          133

 

INTERVIEW
The importance of ecological economics: An interview with Herman Daly          137
Herman Daly and Jamie Morgan          download

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.          155

 

 

Issue no. 89  3 October 2019    

Special Issue: Modern monetary theory and its critics

     

 

Introduction: Whither MMT?          2

The editors          download

 

Alternative paths to modern money theory          5

L. Randall Wray          download

 

Initiating a parallel electronic currency in a eurocrisis country – why it would work          23

Trond Andresen          download

 

An MMT perspective on macroeconomic policy space          32

Phil Armstrong          download

 

Monetary sovereignty is a spectrum: modern monetary theory and developing countries    

Bruno Bonizzi, Annina Kaltenbrunner and Jo Michell          download          46

 

Are modern monetary theory’s lies “plausible lies”?          62

David Colander          download

 

What is modern about MMT? A concise note          72

Paul Davidson          download

 

Modern monetary theory: a European perspective          75

Dirk H. Ehnts and Maurice Höfgen          download

 

MMT: the wrong answer to the wrong question          85

Jan Kregel          download

 

Modern monetary theory and post-Keynesian economics          97

Marc Lavoie          download

 

Money’s relation to debt: some problems with MMT’s conception of money          109

Tony Lawson          download

 

The sleights of hand of MMT          129

Anne Mayhew          download

 

Tax and modern monetary theory         138

Richard Murphy          download

 

Macroeconomics vs. modern money theory: some unpleasant Keynesian arithmetic and monetary dynamics        148

Thomas I. Palley          download

 

MMT and TINA          156

Louis-Philippe Rochon          download

 

Modern monetary theory: is there any added value?          167

Malcolm Sawyer          download

 

The significance of MMT in linking money, markets, sector balances and aggregate demand          180

Alan Shipman          download

 

The political economy of modern money theory, from Brecht to Gaitskell          194

Jan Toporowski          download

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.          203

 

 

 

Issue no. 88 10 July 2019    download whole issue

 

Make-believe empiricism

Is econometrics relevant to real world economics?          2
Imad A. Moosa          download

 

The fiction of verifiability in economic “science”         14

Salim Rashid          download

 

Nominal science without data – the artificial Cold War content of Game Theory and Operations Research          29

Richard Vahrenkamp           download

 

Real GDP: the flawed metric at the heart of macroeconomics          51

Blair Fix, Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler          download

 

Realism and critique in economics: an interview with Lars P. Syll          60

Lars P. Syll and Jamie Morgan          download

 

Digital currency. Design principles to support a shift from bankmoney to entral bank digitalcurrency          76

Joseph Huber          download

 

Economics and the shop floor: reflections of an octogenarian          91

Robert R. Locke          download

 

Can redistribution help build a more stable economy?          108

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Michalis Nikiforos, and Gennaro Zezza          download

 

What can economists and energy engineers learn from thermodynamics beyond the technical aspects?          130

Abderrazak Belabes          download

 

Metaphors for the evolution of the American economy: progressing from the invisible and visible hands to the humanistic hand          144

John F. Tomer          download

 

Permanent fiscal deficits are desirable for the high income countries: a note          159

Leon Podkaminer          download

 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.          163

 

 

 

 

Issue no. 87 19 March 2019   

Special Issue: ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Economics and the Ecosystem

Introduction            2
Jamie Morgan and Edward Fullbrook           download

Growthism: Its ecological, economic, and ethical limits           9
Herman Daly          download

Producing ecological economy          23
Katharine N. Farrell          download

Dog barking, overgrazing and ecological collapse          33
Edward Fullbrook          download

Addressing meta-externalities: investments in restoring the earth          36
Neva Goodwin          download

Degrowth: A theory of radical abundance          54
Jason Hickel          download

Environmental financialization: What could go wrong?          69
Eric Kemp-Benedict and Sivan Kartha          download

Elements of a political economy of the postgrowth era         90
Max Koch          download

Victim of success: civilisation is at risk         106
Peter McManners          download

Economism and the Econocene: A Coevolutionary Interpretation          114
Richard B. Norgaard          download

End game: The economy as eco-catastrophe and what needs to change          132
William E. Rees          download

An ecosocialist path to limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C0          149
Richard Smith          download

Toward sustainable development: Democracy-oriented economics          181
Peter Söderbaum          download

Like blending chalk and cheese          196
Joachim H. Spangenberg and Lia Polotzek          download

Of Ecosystems and Economies: Re-connecting economics with reality          213
Clive L. Spash and Tone Smith          download

How to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2050 231
Per Espen Stoknes          download

The simpler way: envisioning a sustainable society in an age of limits 247
Ted Trainer and Samuel Alexander          download

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions, etc.          261

 

 

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Board of Editors

Nicola Acocella, Italy, University of Rome

Robert Costanza, USA, Portland State University

Wolfgang Drechsler, Estonia, Tallinn Uni. of Technology

Kevin Gallagher, USA, Boston University

Jo Marie Griesgraber, USA, New Rules for Global

Finance Coalition

Bernard Guerrien, France, Uni. Paris 1 Pantheon

Michael Hudson, USA, Uni. of Missouri at Kansas City

Anne Mayhew, USA, University of Tennessee

Gustavo Marques, Argentina, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Julie A. Nelson, USA, Uni. of Massachusetts, Boston

Paul Ormerod, UK, Volterra Consulting

Richard Parker, USA, Harvard University

Ann Pettifor, UK, Policy Research in Macroeconomics

Alicia Puyana, Mexico, Latin Am. School of Social Sciences

Jacques Sapir, France, Ecole des hautes etudes en

sciences sociales

Peter Soderbaum, Sweden, School of Sustainable

Development of Society and Technology

Peter Radford, USA, The Radford Free Press

David Ruccio, USA, Notre Dame University

Immanuel Wallerstein, USA, Yale University

 

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Thoughts that led to

the creation of this journal

 

". . . economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems"

Milton Friedman

 

" [Economics as taught] in America's graduate schools... bears testimony to a triumph of ideology over science.” 
Joseph Stiglitz

 

"Existing economics is a theoretical [meaning mathematical] system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world”

Ronald Coase

 

" We live in an uncertain and ever-changing world that is continually evolving in new and novel ways.  Standard theories are of little help in this context.  Attempting to understand economic, political and social change requires a fundamental recasting of the way we think” 

Douglass North

 

"Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas […] Year after year economic theorists continue to produce scores of mathematical models and to explore in great detail their formal properties; and the econometricians fit algebraic functions of all possible shapes to essentially the same sets of data”

Wassily Leontief

 

" Today if you ask a mainstream economist a question about almost any aspect of economic life, the response will be: suppose we model that situation and see what happens…modern mainstream economics consists of little else but examples of this process”

Robert Solow

 

"Economics is supposed to be social science, i.e. an intellectual discipline resting upon empirically-observed facts, in which mathematics and conceptual frameworks are tools for understanding.  But in contemporary mainstream economics, the tools are often in the driver's seat, declaring evident facts impossible and reducing the subtleties of the real world to whatever clockwork economists best know how to build."

Ian Fletcher

 

"Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing.”
Mark Blaug

 

" . . . the close to monopoly position of neoclassical economics is not compatible with normal ideas about democracy.  Economics is science in some senses, but is at the same time ideology.  Limiting economics to the neoclassical paradigm means imposing a serious ideological limitation.  Departments of economics become political propaganda centers . . .”
Peter Söderbaum

 

" Economics students . . . graduate from Masters and PhD programs with an effectively vacuous understanding of economics, no appreciation of the intellectual history of their discipline, and an approach to mathematics that hobbles both their critical understanding of economics and their ability to appreciate the latest advances in mathematics and other sciences.  A minority of these ill-informed students themselves go on to be academic economists, and they repeat the process.  Ignorance is perpetuated”

Steve Keen

 

" The human economy has passed from an “empty world” era in which human-made capital was the limiting factor in economic development to the current “full world” era in which remaining natural capital has become the limiting factor “

Robert Costanza

"Most courses deal with an ‘imaginary world,’ and have no link whatsoever with concrete problems.” 
Emmanuelle Benicort

 

" All of these textbooks fail to explain how prices are determined in ‘markets’’ and thus how markets work.  Where do prices come from?  Who determines them?  How do they fluctuate?  These questions are never addressed, even though it is through the price mechanism that the ‘invisible hand’ is supposed to operate.”
Le Mouvement Autisme-Économie

 

" . . . mainstream economists seek knowledge through numbers to stop the messy reality of people, processes and politics dirtying their invisible hands.” 
Alan Shipman

 

" Multinationals are everywhere except in economic theories and economics departments.”

Grazia Ietto-Gillies

 

 “. . . the economist must engage him or herself as a citizen with convictions regarding the public good and ways of treating it, rather than as the holder of universal truth that he or she substitutes for discussion in order to impose it on us all.”
André Orléan


" The Taliban, and its variety of fundamentalist thinking, has been the most controlling and oppressive regime with regard to women in contemporary times.  Contemporary academic economics, and contemporary global economic policies, are gripped by other rigidities of thinking – what George Soros has dubbed ‘market fundamentalism.’  Fantasies of control are operative in both phenomena, and gender is far from irrelevant to understanding their power, and their solution.”
Julie A. Nelson

 

" There is an urgent need for a more realistic economics of the environment, with theories and analyses that can help to create environmentally sustainable economic activity.” 

Frank Ackerman

"Modern economics is not very successful as an explanatory endeavour. This much is accepted by most serious commentators on the discipline, including many of its most prominent exponents”

Tony Lawson

 

" Because mathematics has swamped the curricula in leading universities and graduate schools, student economists are neither encouraged nor equipped to analyze real world economies and institutions.”

Geoffrey M. Hodgson

 

" . . . the concepts of uneconomic growth, accumulating illth, and unsustainable scale have to be incorporated in economic theory if it is to be capable of expressing what is happening in the world. This is what ecological economists are trying to do.”

Herman E. Daly

 

" The application of mathematics to economics has proved largely unsuccessful because it is based on a misleading analogy between economics and physics. Economics would do much better to model itself on another very successful area, namely medicine, and, like much of medicine, to adopt a qualitative causal methodology.”

Donald Gillies

 

" Economic history courses have been disappearing from classrooms across the world. Once a compulsory part of economics education, they have been relegated to the remote corners of ‘options’ and even closed down.”

Ha-Joon Chang

 

" In Smith is a forgotten lesson that the foundation of success in creating a constructive classical liberal society lies in the individuals’ adherence to a common social ethics. According to Smith, virtue serves as ‘the fine polish to the wheels of society’ while vice is ‘like the vile rust, which makes them jar and grate upon one another.’ Indeed, Smith sought to distance his thesis from that of Mandeville and the implication that individual greed could be the basis for social good. Smith’s deistic universe might not sit well with those of post-enlightenment sensibilities, but his understanding that virtue is a prerequisite for a desirable market society remains an important lesson. For Smith ethics is the hero-not self-interest or greed-for it is ethics that defend social intercourse from the Hobbesian chaos.”

Charles K. Wilber

 

". . . conventional economics . . . remains fixated on the view that economics is the physics of society.  In other words, most of the profession behaves as if there were a single universally valid view of the world that needs only to be applied.” 

Paul Ormerod

 

 

 

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