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Bryan Caplan, David Henderson, and Arnold Kling

Alternative Economics

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October 24, 2011

Of Bunk and Economics

Books: Reviews and Suggested Readings
Arnold Kling
I was sent a review copy of Debunking Economics, by Australian economics professor Steven Keen. I agree with his view that heterodox economists have something to offer, particularly in the area of macroeconomics. His discussion of a debt bubble and... MORE

August 23, 2010

Evolution, Economics, and Education

Alternative Economics
Arnold Kling
Mike Gibson points to a sequence of posts by D.S. Wilson. They start here (with some broken links in the first paragaph--I needed to use Google to follow up on one of them), and proceeds rather slowly for my taste.... MORE

August 14, 2005

Economics and Autism

Economic Methods
Arnold Kling
Simon Baron-Cohen said, A systemizer is somebody whose style of thinking is predominantly in terms of understanding things according to rules or laws. You can think of lots of different kinds of systems: mathematical systems (algebra, computer programs), or mechanical... MORE

July 31, 2005

What's Wrong with Conventional Economics?

Alternative Economics
Arnold Kling
Michael Blowhard summarizes two books attacking mainstream economics. For most of the "Changing Face" crowd, the field needs some correction, but nothing fundamental. One mathematical-modeling whiz says straight-out that there's nothing wrong with mathematical modeling that better mathematical modeling can't... MORE

March 28, 2003

Economics and its Enemies

Alternative Economics
Arnold Kling
William Coleman, author of Economics and its Enemies, gave a lecture on the history of anti-economics. He sees two main sources of hostility to economics. First, The paradoxical truth is that nothing is more unpopular than the pursuit of the... MORE

March 18, 2003

Protesting Economic Education

Economic Education
Arnold Kling
In this essay, I cited Steven Pinker on the value of teaching economics, but I concluded with doubts as to whether "economic idiotarianism" could be eradicated entirely with education. Consider this story about the movement for alternative economics, including a... MORE

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