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Rescuing economics

Peter Cserne (Hull) and Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay (Goldsmiths): Merit Goods. Martha T. McCluskey (Buffalo): Defining the Economic Pie, Not Dividing or Maximizing It. Adam Gaffney reviews The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life by Eli Cook. Vince Carducci reviews The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt, and the Myth of Endless Accumulation by Peter Fleming. Daniel Hirschman reviews The Power of Economists Within the State by Johan Christensen. Branko Milanovic on what early-20th-century scholars got right about 21st-century politics: Unlike many economists today, they questioned fundamental social structure. The teaching of economics gets an overdue overhaul (and more). Dani Rodrik on rescuing economics from neoliberalism. The introduction to Economics for the Common Good by Jean Tirole.