Growth, GDP, inflation and other economic terms need to be demystified, if we want to enter an age of economic enlightenment. This includes questioning economics as a social or soft science altogether.
We are not alone in this. See – in chronological order:
Questioning Economic Development is a collection of papers presented at The Other Economic Summit in Houston in 1990
Autisme-Economie.org – English texts from the movement that emerged after French students began to question economic teaching in 2000
Post-Autistic Economics Network – the site that emerged from the original thinkers
Debunking Economics – the book by Australian assistant professor Steve Keen – published in 2001
Heterodox Economics Newsletter – 92 issues since 2004 – edited by a number of US professors, including a world-wide directory
In Economics Departments, a Growing Will to Debate Fundamental Assumptions – an article by The New York Times published in 2007
Priceless: How the Federal Reserve bought the Economics Profession – a leading article in the Huffington Post, the number 1 blog worldwide, on February 9, 2010
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