Forecasting failures: Lessons from the 19th century to modern economics

Nicholas Gruen

One thousand critiques of neoclassical economics are not going to be effective unless the critiques hang together.

David Sloan Wilson, Dennis Snower

the evidence suggests that interest rates play a key role in the game of class warfare

Blair Fix

Our world is much too complex to be effectively understood by just one type of economist.

Joris Tieleman and Sam de Muijnck

Economic life as experienced was increasingly pushed out of view to make the chosen methods work.

Nicholas Gruen

As inflation fears return, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the real-world facts.

Blair Fix

Discussion between authors of a revolutionary new article

David Sloan Wilson, Dennis Snower

The answer lies in alternative economic practices.

Steven Klees

What is taught in today’s graduate programs as macroeconomics is entirely useless for the kinds of questions we are interested in.

J. W. Mason

Traditional models of rational choice typically ignore Darwin’s central insight—that life is graded on the curve.

Robert Frank

There is a new world that is fast-overtaking us, and it needs to be seen and explained on its own terms.

David Bollier

Beyond any shadow of a doubt, there is a change in the air, as economics nears its Copernican Moment.

Dennis Snower

We need to stop making glib assumptions about what other people want and how they can best achieve their objectives.

Jason Collins

The free market, it appears, is not about freedom. It’s about power.

Blair Fix

In every other science, this inability to measure the key category of the theory would be devastating. But not in the science of economics.

Shimshon Bichler, Jonathan Nitzan

Social marketing provides a more holistic approach to influencing behavioral change.

Philip Kotler

The Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO seizes a teachable moment.

William Spriggs

James McGill Buchanan is a name you will rarely hear unless you’ve taken several classes in economics.

Lynn Parramore

Evonomics

Robust middle incomes deliver the demand that businesses need to produce.

Robert Manduca

As long as we believe the neoclassical farce, we will know nothing about what causes prices.

Blair Fix

Every economic model is built on political assumptions

Anat Admati

When the Chicago economists discovered that women exist, they added them to the model as if they were just like him.

Katrine Marçal

Out of twenty-nine papers covering women on corporate boards, only one was published in an economics journal.

Renée Adams

The opposite of altruistic relations is not selfish relations. It’s power and submission.

Blair Fix

Economists like to think they’re immune from ideological influence. New research shows otherwise.

Mohsen Javdani & Ha-Joon Chang

Marginal productivity is a thought virus that is sabotaging the scientific study of income.

Blair Fix

A Nobel Economist’s Model Dismantled

Steve Keen

What Economists can Learn from Girls Rock Camp.

David Orrell

If we want to change the economics profession, we need to start changing the world.

J. W. Mason