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The profit doctrine : economists of the neoliberal era /

The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Chernomas, Robert (Author), Hudson, Ian, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Boxes, Figures and Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Prophets and Profits
  • 2. The Contest of Economic Ideas: Survival of the Richest
  • 3. The Consequences of Economic Ideas
  • 4. Milton Friedman: The Godfather of the Age of Instability and Inequality
  • 5. The Deregulationists: Public Choice and Private Gain
  • 6. The Great Vacation: Rational Expectations and Real Business Cycles
  • 7. Bursting Bubbles: Finance, Crisis and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
  • 8. Economists Go to Washington: Ideas in Action
  • 9. Conclusion: Dissenters and Victors
  • Bibliography.
  • 1. Prophets and profits
  • 2. The contest of economic ideas: survival of the richest
  • 3. The consequences of economic ideas
  • 4. Milton Friedman: the godfather of the age of instability and inequality
  • 5. The deregulationists: public choice and private gain
  • 6. The great vacation: rational expectations and real business cycles
  • 7. Bursting bubbles: finance, crisis and the efficient market hypothesis
  • 8. Economists go to Washington: ideas in action
  • 9. Conclusion: dissenters and victors.