Richard Florida: It’s Not (Just) the Working Class. It’s the Service Class.
The real contested terrain of American politics is the Service Class and its locations.
Richard Florida
Browsing: Economics
The Amazing Arab Scholar Who Beat Adam Smith by Half a Millennium
Neoclassical economists created a false narrative of the history of economics.
Dániel Oláh
Inequality is Fracturing American Democracy and Killing Prosperity
Social cohesion and, ultimately, democratic institutions are threatened by the flawed assumption that inequality is irrelevant.
David Alexander
Hayek Meets Information Theory. And Fails.
Modern economic theories of prices-as-information are seventy years out of date.
Jason Smith
How Ideologues Use Grade-School Economics to Distort Minimum Wage Debates
Introductory economics can be more misleading than it is helpful
James Kwak
Economist Josh Ryan-Collins: How Land Disappeared from Economic Theory
For classical economists, it was a factor of production, and the source of “rent.”
Josh Ryan-Collins
They Just Get Bigger: How Corporate Mergers Strangle the Economy
Corporate mergers kill competition and cause economic stagnation
Jordan Brennan
What in the Heck Is “Money Printing,” Anyway?
People — especially economists — use this term every which way from Sunday.
Steve Roth
It’s Time for New Economic Thinking Based on the Best Science Available, Not Ideology
A new narrative for a complex age
Eric Beinhocker
What Is Radical Economics? (Hint: It’s Not Neoliberal or Marxist)
Transformation doesn’t require an alternative “social economy,” because the economy we have is already social. We just need to recognize and act on that fact.
Julie Nelson
Rapid Money Supply Growth Does Not Cause Inflation
Neither do rapid growth in government debt, declining interest rates, or rapid Increases in a central bank’s balance sheet
Richard Vague
How Do Americans Get Rich? (And Stay Rich?)
Income inequality is rampant, and rising. But it’s not even close to the whole story.
Steve Roth
How New Keynesian Economics Betrays Keynes
Classicals, Keynesians, and Bastard Keynesians
Roger Farmer
Economist Julie Nelson Says Much of Economics is a Sham Science
We undermine our survival if we continue to imagine economics as a ethics-free and care-free sphere
Julie Nelson
Why Economists Don’t Know How to Think about Wealth (or Profits)
Until 2006, they quite literally weren’t playing with a full (accounting) deck. Most still aren’t.
Steve Roth
Why You Should Blame The Economics Discipline For Today’s Problems
The people responsible for national economic policy are economics professors
John T. Harvey
Does Saving Cause Lending Cause Investment? (No.)
The idea that household saving funds business investment is both incoherent and empirically wrong.
Steve Roth
The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life’s Greatest Dilemmas
The design principles for solving the tragedy of the commons can be applied to all groups
David Sloan Wilson
My Opinion of Noahpinion: A Response to Noah Smith’s Critique About the Future of Economics
Debating the future of economics
David Sloan Wilson
The Radical Remaking of Economics
To place economics on a solid footing, we need to build its intellectual foundations
David Sloan Wilson
Imagine Economics as an Evolutionary Science
What might an evolutionary perspective mean for the future of economics?
Geoffrey Hodgson
The Death of the Invisible Hand: Why the Narrow Pursuit of Self Interest Always Fails
Regulation comes naturally for small human groups but must be constructed for large human groups.
David Sloan Wilson
How the Darwinian Revolution Can Fix Economics
The inability to acknowledge our Darwinian nature leaves reformers in an awkward position
George Cooper
Economists Should Stop Defending Milton Friedman’s Pseudo-science
On the pseudo-scientific nature of Friedman’s “as if” methodology
George H. Blackford
How Economists’ Distorted Version of Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Ruined the Economy
As Americans turned away from government, so did the economics profession
Jeff Madrick
What is New Economic Thinking?
Three strands of heterodox economics that are leading the way
Amna Silim
Economists Agree: Democratic Presidents are Better at Making Us Rich. Eight Reasons Why.
Democratic administrations over the last century have delivered far faster economic growth. What explains that?
Steve Roth
How ‘Competitiveness’ Became One of the Great Unquestioned Virtues of Modern Culture
How did mounting inequality succeed in proving culturally and politically attractive for as long as it did?
Will Davies
Orthodox Economics Is Broken. How Evolution, Ecology, and Collective Behavior Can Help Us Avoid Catastrophe
After the crash, can biologists fix economics?
Kate Douglas
Economist J. W. Mason: “When We Turn to Concrete Economic Questions, There Isn’t Really a ‘Mainstream’ at All.”
There is a mix of common-sense opinions, political prejudices, conventional business practice, and pragmatic rules of thumb, supported in an ad hoc, opportunistic way by bits and pieces of economic theory.
J. W. Mason
