The Profit Doctrine : Economists of the Neoliberal Era / Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chernomas, Robert, author.

Hudson, Ian, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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, Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100053

ISBN:

9781783719938

OCLC:

968727119

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access