archive

The economic imagination

Mike Hill (Albany) and Warren Montag (Occidental): The Economic Imagination. Anthony Randazzo (Reason Foundation) and Jonathan Haidt (NYU): Are Economists Influenced by Their Moral Worldviews? Evidence from the Moral Foundations of Economists Questionnaire. Are economists driven by ideology or evidence? Mark Thoma investigates. The introduction to Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist by L. Randall Wray. Steven Pearlstein on Olivier Blanchard, the smartest economist you’ve never heard of. Mike Bird on 13 women who transformed the world of economics. Robert B. Reich on how economics is too important to be left to economists. David Leiser and Zeev Kril (Ben-Gurion): How Laypeople Understand Economics. Egmont Kakarot-Handtke on how the intelligent non-economist can refute every economist hands down.

Dani Rodrik on economists vs. economics. N. Emrah Aydinonat reviews Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science by Dani Rodrik (and more and more and more and more). Justin Fox on how academic publishing is all about status; and on how economics went from theory to data. Can economics change your mind? Noah Smith on how most of what you learned in Econ 101 is wrong. Do economics experiments have anything to do with reality? Philip Roscoe on how economics is itself one of the biggest problems we face today. Federico Fubini on the closed marketplace of economic ideas. Marshall I. Steinbaum and Bernard A. Weisberger on how economics was once radical — then it decided not to be. From Stanford University Press, a blog series on heterodox economics. Labor economics are having a moment — and so is Larry Mishel.