Rick Wolff says that mainstream economics is ignoring one of the biggest casualties of the recession:
Capitalist crises, especially severe ones, are case studies in that system’s social costs. Because the dutifully conservative economics profession rarely studies such cases, let’s do just that here by focusing on how the current capitalist crisis is damaging public education. [...]
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“Economic Crisis Savages Public Education”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economic Crisis, Education, Marxian on December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Economist Rethinks Economics?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Economic Crisis, Education on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Has the crisis that so “humbled” the discipline of economics also humbled The Economist? A few lines into this article, and one might think so:
Economics is less a slavish creed than a prism through which to understand the world. It is a broad canon, stretching from theories to explain how prices are determined to how [...]
