The profit doctrine : economists of the neoliberal era /
The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved to be such an abject failure come to dominate the economic landscape? By critically examining the work of the most famous economists of the neoliberal period including Alan Greenspan, Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, the authors Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson demonstrate that many of those who rose to prominence did so primarily because of their defence of, and contribution to, rising corporate profits and not their ability to predict or explain economic events. An important and controversial book, 'The Profit Doctrine' exposes the uses and abuses of mainstream economic canons, identify those responsible and reaffirm the primacy of political economy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781783719938 1783719931 9781783719945 178371994X |