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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

How Neoclassical Economics Corrupted Business Schools, Corporations, and the Economy

Homo economicus fosters a corporate culture that ignores business social responsibilities

Herbert Gintis, Rakesh Khurana

Scientists Discover What Economists Haven’t Found: Humans

Working towards building a better theory of human nature

David Sloan Wilson

What Unpopular Music Can Teach Us About the Future of Economics

The necessary arrogance of academic elites

Frances Coppola

Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers.

Why has business education failed business?

Rana Foroohar

Productivity Is Slowing and Inequality Is Growing. Here’s What’s Causing it.

Productivity, Inequality, and Economic Rents

Jason Furman

Plato Got It Right. Tyranny is a Product of Extreme Inequality and Plutocratic Oligarchy

Does democracy inherently lead to tyranny?

Jag Bhalla

Why Anger at Elites Was Channelled Towards Voting for Brexit

How behavioral economics explains voting for Brexit

Chris Dillow

A Radical Proposal After Brexit: End the European Union and Begin Destructive Creation

Why the European Union should start over

Peter Turchin

Economists Forgot Smith and Darwin’s Message: Society Cannot Function Without Moral Bonds

The problem when we ignore moral dispositions and concentrate on self-interest

Geoffrey Hodgson

How Finance Makes Wealth Accumulation Radically Different from the Past

Little is today beyond the reach of investment markets, from mortgages to carbon emissions, to speculation on the future performances of companies.

Eoin Flaherty

We’re Not as Selfish as Economists Think We Are. Here’s the Proof.

Why the pessimism about human nature is unwarrented

George Monbiot

The Invisible Hand is Dead!

It’s time to rethink the foundational economic metaphor

David Sloan Wilson

Economist Herbert Gintis: Where New Economics Meets Old

Is traditional economics really dying?

Herbert Gintis

It’s Time to Base Economics on Human Nature, Not Homo Economicus

How human nature defies the laws of economics

Jonathan Rowe

Chimpanzees Prove That Elites Don’t Understand Darwin’s Message About Cooperation

The evolutionary roots of our social contract

Eric Michael Johnson

The Rise of Finance and The Fall of American Business

Companies don’t innovate when they can make more money from financialization

John Battelle

Why Economics Is Really Psychology on Steroids

Why economists are so often wrong

Jonathan Rowe

How America Hates Socialism without Knowing Why

Why are socialist programs so unpopular today?

Lixing Sun

Why You Should Blame the Financial Crisis for Political Polarization and the Rise of Trump

How financial and banking crisis ruins our civility

Amir Sufi

How Social Justice and Cooperation Made Us Rich

The Great Enrichment: solving the deepest puzzle of the social sciences

Will Wilkinson

The Milton Friedman Doctrine Is Wrong. Here’s How to Rethink the Corporation.

We won’t fix the problem until we address the nature of the corporation.

Susan Holmberg, Mark Schmitt

How Perfect Markets Concentrate Wealth and Strangle Growth and Prosperity

The winners have us all playing a loser’s game

Steve Roth

How Economists Turned Us Blind to Our Own Goodness

Cultivating conscience: how good laws make good people

Lynn Stout

How Finance Behaves like a Parasite Toward the Economy

Economist Michael Hudson explains financial parasitism

Michael Hudson

How the Profound Changes in Economics Make Left Versus Right Debates Irrelevant

Eric Beinhocker introduces the ‘new economics’ research programme

Eric Beinhocker

How the Deadly Sin of Greed Was Rehabilitated as Self Interest

And why economists have come to have second thoughts about Homo economicus.

Samuel Bowles

Why Countries Never Thrive Without Activist Government Investment

History shows that economies have never grown through minimizing government involvement in the economy

William Berkson

Success Means Competing and Cooperating. Adam Smith as You’ve Never Seen Him Before

Free rider problems and twenty-first century public goods

Nicholas Gruen

How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

The evolution, ecology, and nature of firms

David Sloan Wilson

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