Thursday, October 28, 2021

The New Economics: A Manifesto by Steve Keen-Review — Dirk Bezemer

Steve Keen did it again. This Manifesto is a lucid deconstruction of fallacies in neoclassical economics, a reflection on its puzzling persistence, a passionate plea for another kind of economics, and a demonstrationof the hands-on creation of that alternative in two areas, monetary economics and environmental economics. All this comes in a slim volume of less than 160 pages, with copious notes and extensive references added. The book is at once accessible, engaging and scholarly. The breadth of Keen’s reading and analysis is impressive, ranging from the earliest history of economics to the profession’s latest newspaper polemics, from population biology and complexity science to implications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and from the primeval origins of money to the latest fashion in monetary theory (‘MMT’).…
 Brave New Europe
Dirk Bezemer
https://braveneweurope.com/the-new-economics-a-manifesto-by-steve-keen

3 comments:

Matt Franko said...

“a lucid deconstruction of fallacies in neoclassical economics, a reflection on its puzzling persistence”

The Liberal Art degree method uses synthesis of prior theses to create the new thesis so why would anyone be puzzled over prior theses remaining in any new thesis?

Matt Franko said...

Liberal Art method is not discriminatory…

Peter Pan said...

"a lurid deconstruction of fellatio in neoclassical economics, ..."

Sounds about right.

@Matt

May answer your question