Philip Kotler: Marketing is the Original Behavioral Economics
Social marketing provides a more holistic approach to influencing behavioral change.
Philip Kotler
Why the Richest, Freest Economies Belong to Countries With Large Powerful States
Flourishing market economy requires, not small government, but high-quality government.
Brink Lindsey
Economist’s Open Letter to Economists About Race
The Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO seizes a teachable moment.
William Spriggs
How to Disguise Racism and Oligarchy: Use Economics
James McGill Buchanan is a name you will rarely hear unless you’ve taken several classes in economics.
Lynn Parramore
Evidence for Tribalism in Economics
While economists like to pretend otherwise, humans are social animals.
Using Evolutionary Social Science to Deal with Pandemics
Humans create and thrive in a world too complicated to understand
Michael Muthukrishna
The Making of “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics”
Discussion between authors of a revolutionary new article
David Sloan Wilson, Dennis Snower
The Racism of Neoliberalism
Race-conscious solutions must be at the center of our policy discussions.
Darrick Hamilton and Kyle Strickland
Saving Capitalism from Inequality
Robust middle incomes deliver the demand that businesses need to produce.
Robert Manduca
Capitalism’s Case for Abolishing Billionaires
Adam Smith wanted to keep the power of the rich in check.
Linsey J McGoey
Productivity Does Not Explain Wages
As long as we believe the neoclassical farce, we will know nothing about what causes prices.
There is No Economics without Politics
Every economic model is built on political assumptions
Anat Admati
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?
When the Chicago economists discovered that women exist, they added them to the model as if they were just like him.
Katrine Marçal
Capitalism(s), Alone
One economic system dominates the world. But there’s more than one kind of capitalism.
Branko Milanović
Does Economics Ignore Women and Gender?
Out of twenty-nine papers covering women on corporate boards, only one was published in an economics journal.
Renée Adams
New Microeconomics: How Evolution Explains Resource Distribution
The opposite of altruistic relations is not selfish relations. It’s power and submission.
Are Economists Ideologically Biased?
Economists like to think they’re immune from ideological influence. New research shows otherwise.
Mohsen Javdani & Ha-Joon Chang
Keynes Was Really a Conservative
“The class war,” said Keynes, “will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.”
Bruce Bartlett
No, Productivity Does Not Explain Income
Marginal productivity is a thought virus that is sabotaging the scientific study of income.
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Extreme Inequality is Destroying Our Economy
Taking the free out of free markets is making a mockery of democracy.
Angus Deaton
Takers and Makers: Who are the Real Value Creators?
Where value meets profit meets economic rent.
Mariana Mazzucato
Milton Friedman’s Economic Racism
The godfather of neoclassical economics ignored the market forces of discrimination and slavery.
John Jackson
Curing Economics’ Addiction to Unreal Theories
A Review of Ricardo’s Dream, by Nat Dyer
David Sloan Wilson
Eight Reasons Why Inequality Ruins the Economy
What matters is not so much the level of inequality as the effect it has.
Chris Dillow
Announcing a New Paradigm for Economics and Beyond
One thousand critiques of neoclassical economics are not going to be effective unless the critiques hang together.
David Sloan Wilson, Dennis Snower
Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
Evidence that innovation and growth isn’t based on economic self-interest.
Peter Turchin
