Anybody read Sam Bowles "Microeconomics"? I'm fighting my way through it now.
The math (so far) is not hard, it's just tedious. Seems like he could establish the points, which I think are important, much more clearly, with less jargon and fewer words. I can't imagine using this as a textbook, except as an exercise in sadism. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jim Devine > Sent: 04:02 pm > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] textbook bias > > Sandwichman wrote: > > Thanks to Google Books, I'm now sifting through a century of economics > > textbooks to document the rise, mutation and consolidation of the > > lump-of-labor fallacy, which is falsely attributed as a "cherished > > belief" of trade unions and workers. I have nearly 300 citations. Very > > rarely does anyone point out the lack of evidence for the claim. > > standard economics textbooks don't refer to evidence of any sort > unless it fits their preestablished perspective. > > > Having now published two articles analyzing the contradictions and > > unscientific basis of the claim, I patiently await the awakened > > consensus of those in the economics field that perhaps there has > > indeed been some bias in the past by economists with regard to the > > issue of reduced working time. > > don't hold your breath. > > > Betting against a century of textbook lore, I've even offered a > > $10,000 prize to anyone who can conclusively refute my debunking of > > the fallacy claim. Now if only I could enlist the support of ten or > > fifteen economics professors for a campaign to set the record straight > > on the economics of working time. > > when are textbooks going to actually describe the political-economic > ideas of Marx without gross distortion? (I picked up a _sociology_ > book that was equally bad.) > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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