Tag: economics
Economists admit: “Humans are fundamentally a social species with interaction patterns that shape their behaviors”. Eureka!!
The Value of Nothing and Market Society
On economists, sociologists, and evil – an anecdote and an insight from Paul Krugman
‘Performativity thesis’: Accounting’s mediating role in bringing theoretical statements from economics into life
Thomas Piketty: “There is no such thing as economic science. There are social sciences, economic processes involved social control.”
Why have historians ceded authority to economists as reliable and competent policy advisors?
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!
Why the Federal Reserve Failed to See the 2008 Financial Crisis: The Role of “Macroeconomics” as a Sensemaking and Cultural Frame
“Economics graduate programs may be turning out a generation with too many idiot savants skilled in technique but innocent of real economic issues.”
What crisis? Everything must (not) change so that the IMF can remain the same.
Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
Should We Trust Economists? Are they charlatans, to be scorned as medieval cranks?
Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Free markets’ as a religious belief
“Seeing, Knowing, and Regulating Financial Markets: Moving the Cognitive Framework from the Economic to the Social”
Theory in Pictures: Consumption / Demand in Economics
‘Capital’ in the University of Chicago bookstore.. Too bad it’s by the wrong author ;-)
The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
