Robert Skidelsky on the economics curriculum

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Robert Skidelsky on the economics curriculum

by merijnknibbe

According to Brad deLong, ‘the extremely wise Robert Skidelsky has an excellent rant against Anglo-Saxon economics departments’, on Project Syndicate. First a Skidelsky excerpt, below this some Brad. The deeper message is that mainstream economics is in fact an ideology – the ideology of the free market. Its tools and assumptions define its topics. If […]

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merijnknibbe | June 19, 2014 at 10:54 am | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pGd5z-4bQ

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