At 01:53 PM 3/26/01 +0300, Michael Keaney wrote:
>Penners
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>Last week the new Zed Books catalogue dropped through the letter box. Among
>its delights was a forthcoming volume authored by Steve Keen, University of
>Western Sydney, entitled "Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the
>Social Sciences." The blurb explains that the book
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>"explains why economists think the way they do, and points out the flaws in
>their thinking which they don't realise, don't appreciate, or just plain
>ignore. Most of these flaws were established by dissident academic
>economists decades ago, yet modern economics pretends that it can continue
>with 'business as usual'."
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>Among those praising the book are erstwhile Penner Henry Liu, URPE stalwart
>Don Goldstein and Hugh Stretton. Anybody know anything about this? Rob?
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>Michael K.
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>Michael Keaney
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Here's the URL for a Web site on the book, which includes an overview, some
sample chapters, and info on Professor Keen himself.
I have been impressed with what I've seen of the book. The author hits
mainstream economics in some of its "soft underbellies" without, as far as
I've been able to tell, adopting a philosophically indefensible postmodern
epistemology or buying some of the more dubious notions of Marxist thought
(i.e., the core of Marxism, in my view. Sorry folks, gotta call it as my
somewhat Neibuhresque suspicion of Marxism sees it).
http://bus.macarthur.uws.edu.au/Steve-Keen/DE/
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