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I have just started David Schweickart's After Capitalism. I have yet to get to his exposition of how transition to economic democracy might be achieved.

To my mind, a transition to Schweickart's preferred syst...


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I thought I would try to summarize again some objections to the Austrian school.

Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) focuses on the consequences of the monetary authority setting the monetary interest rate below the natural rate of interest. Following Knut Wicksell somewhat, the theory argues that capitalist entrepreneurs will lengthen production processes. Since...


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I have been pointing out that much teaching in most universities and high schools in economics is propaganda. Mistakes that were exposed more than half a century ago continue to be taught. Alternatives have been available, at varying levels, in textbooks for d...


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"[M]ainstream economists [divide] into effective 'castes', with only a tiny but exalted subset of the profession undertaking the detailed mathematical work needed to discover the weaknesses in the theory. The vast majority of economists believe that this high caste, the mathematical economists, did their work properly, and proved that the theory is internally consistent. The ca...

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1.0 Introduction

This post revisits my example with fixed capital and two types of land. It presents, by means of an example, the concept of the centre of a solving subsystem. Quadrio Curzio & Pellizzari (2010) introduce the...


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