Chernomas / Hudson The Profit Doctrine

Economists of the Neoliberal Era
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78371-994-5
Verlag: The Word Among Us Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Electronic book text (EPUB)

The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved to be such an abject failure come to dominate the economic landscape?

 

By critically examining the work of the most famous economists of the neoliberal period including Alan Greenspan, Milton Friedman, and Robert Lucas, the authors Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson demonstrate that many of those who rose to prominence did so primarily because of their defence of, and contribution to, rising corporate profits and not their ability to predict or explain economic events.


An important and controversial book, The Profit Doctrine exposes the uses and abuses of mainstream economic canons, identify those responsible and reaffirm the primacy of political economy.

Zielgruppe

Crossover

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chernomas, Robert

Hudson, Ian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Boxes, Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

1. Prophets and Profits

2. The Contest of Economic Ideas: Survival of the Richest

3. The Consequences of Economic Ideas

4. Milton Friedman: The Godfather of the Age of Instability and Inequality

5. The Deregulationists: Public Choice and Private Gain

6. The Great Vacation: Rational Expectations and Real Business Cycles

7. Bursting Bubbles: Finance, Crisis and The Efficient Market Hypothesis

8. Economists Go to Washington: Ideas in Action

9. Conclusion: Dissenters and Victors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hudson, Ian

Ian Hudson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).

Chernomas, Robert

Robert Chernomas is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is co-author (with Ian Hudson) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).