On the other hand, Bowles' Understanding Capitalism is quite good. I've
used it in A Political Economy of Social Welfare class for three years,
and much to my surprise, the students, who are not especially enamored
of economics, usually prefer it to the Real World Macro anthology from
Dollars & Sense.
Joel Blau
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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.
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