I first came across this article during finals, but I didn’t have time to post it then. After being reminded of it this morning, I thought I would share it. The BBC reports (here) on a recent publication by the New Economics Foundation that calculates the “real value to society of different professions” (report available [...]
Archive for January 5th, 2010
The Real Value to Society
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged inequality on January 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
‘Unperson’ Economists
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alternatives, Economic Crisis, Economic Debates, Keynes, Notre Dame on January 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Via Crooked Timber (h/t Thoma), James Galbraith has an article (pdf) for the NEA Higher Education Journal in which he takes on mainstream economics as a whole. First, he points to a quote from Krugman’s much cited NYT Mag piece from September: Of course, there were exceptions to these trends: a few economists challenged the assumption [...]
