Debunking economics : the naked emperor of the social sciences / Steve Keen.
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Annandale , NSW : London ; New York :
Pluto Press ; Zed Books,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. No More Mr Nice Guy: Why the public needs to know that economics is intellectually unsound
- 2. The Calculus of Hedonism: Why the pursuit of individual self-interest does not maximise social welfare
- 3. The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing: Why most products cost less to produce as output rises
- 4. Size Does Matter: Why the economic argument against monopolies is invalid
- 5. To Each According to His Contribution: Why productivity doesn't determine wages
- 6. The Holy War over Capital: Why the productivity of capital doesn't determine profits
- 7. There is Madness in their Method: Why assumptions do matter
- 8. Let's Do the Time Warp Again: Why economics must finally treat time seriously
- 9. The Sum of the Parts: Why Keynes's criticisms of conventional economics are still relevant today
- 10. The Price is Not Right : Why finance markets can get the price of assets so badly wrong
- 11. Finance and Economic Breakdown: Why stock markets crash
- 12. Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano: Why mathematics is not the problem
- 13. Nothing to lose but their minds: Why Marxists are irrelevant, but Marx is not
- 14. There Are Alternatives : Why there is still hope for a better economics.
