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This looks like as good of a dumping ground as any for my pet issue. If you're interested in economic schools besides Neo-Classical there is a class on Coursera
by frgtpsswrdlame 8y ago
This looks like as good of a dumping ground as any for my pet issue. If you're interested in economic schools besides Neo-Classical there is a class on Coursera called Introduction to Economic Theories.
If you're interested in critiques of contemporary economic thought then I would say Ha-Joon Chang isn't your best option. I think the thing to do is to mostly ditch economists as they aren't that great of critics (aside from a few Post-Keynesians but that's my own personal bias) and look to the philosophers.
Here's a critique by Martha Nussbaum that I find pretty convincing: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5798&context=uclrev https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
Michael Sandel has a video series on INET called What Money Can't Buy based off his book. It's easy to watch and it's basically him prodding at some of the philosophical assumptions made in our usual economic reasoning. I find it quite good and it does have big name economists like Mankiw on it.
Elizabeth Anderson is good as well and she seems to be more than happy to appear on libertarian programs.
Here she is on econtalk: http://www.econtalk.org/elizabeth-anderson-on-worker-rights-and-private-government/ http://www.econtalk.org/elizabeth-anderson-on-worker-rights-...
on Libertarianism.org:
1. https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts-podcast/equality-capabilities-or-equality-outcomes https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts-podcast/e...
2. https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/do-employers-rules-our-lives https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/do-employ...
And with Mike Munger: http://www.publicsquare.net/2017/11/private-government-how-employers-rule-our-lives-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it/ http://www.publicsquare.net/2017/11/private-government-how-e...
There's some sociologists that are also critical of the standard economic reasoning but I don't know enough about that side of the issue to provide any recommendations.
- emodendroket 8y agoEven if we accepted your criticism that economists have a limited ability to pick apart conventional wisdom, I think it is worthwhile to hear these things from people steeped in and deeply knowledgeable about the field.