What Role Should Money and Markets Play in a Good Society?
What do we do when the numbers look wrong, when the incentives they produce no longer make sense?
David Orrell, Roman Chlupatý
Why Garbagemen Should Earn More Than Bankers
How more and more people are making money without contributing anything of value
Rutger Bregman
Orthodox Economics Has Become a Place Where Visions Die and Hopes Are Banished
Why liberal economists dish out despair
Gerald Friedman
Towards an Economics of Common Sense
The metaphysical and epistemological basis of economics
Chris Cook
Do You Care Enough About Future People to Leave Them a Livable Planet?
Global environmental dilemma as a problem of fairness
Louis Putterman
Economists Ignore One of Capitalism’s Biggest Problems. Banks Create Money out of Nothing.
Banks don’t intermediate loans, they originate loans
Steve Keen
How the Invisible Hand Was Corrupted by Laissez-Faire Economics
Smith’s invisible hand shows the limits of laissez-faire
Jeff Madrick
Why We Should Tax and Shame Excessive Corporate Lobbying
Does a CEO have a duty to lobby?
Luigi Zingales
Economics Can Explain the Real World with Two Fixes
Why rationality should be based on relative payoffs
Lixing Sun
The Oligarchy Economy: Concentrated Power, Income Inequality, and Slow Growth
Corporate concentration exacerbates income inequality
Jordan Brennan
They Don’t Just Hide Their Money. Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth is Unearned.
The concentration of wealth from rent-seeking
Didier Jacobs
Utility Maximization Is an Unfalsifiable and Inadequate Explanation of Human Behavior
Because utility maximization covers everything, it no longer tells us anything
Geoffrey Hodgson
Economics Is a Mess and Needs to be Reformed
Organizing the jumbled schools of economic thought
Cameron K. Murray
Why Libertarians Should Support Many Forms of Government Intervention
How to solve collective action problems
Robert Frank
Would Darwin be a Socialist or a Libertarian?
A debate about regulation and competition
Michael Shermer
Stop Crying About the Size of Government. Start Caring About Who Controls It.
The role of the state in the economy
David Sloan Wilson
Stop Associating Adam Smith with Laissez-Faire Economics
Modern misuses of the father of economics
Jag Bhalla
Why Economists Should Start Behaving Like Scientists
The empirical revolution needs a general theory
David Sloan Wilson
Traditional Economics Failed. Here’s a New Blueprint.
Why true self-interest is mutual interest
Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer
How Bernie Sanders Was the Only Candidate to Uphold an Essential Pro-Market Principle
Why money in politics allows those in power to determine the rules of the game
Guy Rolnik
Science Proves Ayn Rand Wrong About Altruism and Laissez-Faire Economics
Evolution clearly shows how altruism trumps selfishness.
Denise Cummins
The Dumbest Business Idea Ever. The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value
The dominant business philosophy debunked
Lynn Stout
Economist Says Higher-IQ People are Nicer and More Cooperative
How group intelligence predicts success
Garett Jones
Nobel Laureate Economist Says American Inequality Didn’t Just Happen. It Was Created.
How to keep power at the top of society
Joseph E. Stiglitz
How Your Savings Plan Fuels an Arms Race on Wall Street
Finding productive places to invest our money
Joanna Masel
Why the Left and Right Can Agree on Taxing Unearned Income
It makes moral and economic sense to tax rent-seeking
Matt Zwolinski
