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Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics
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Rethinking Economics
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What Every Economics Students Needs to Know and Doesn't get in the Usual Principles Text
What Every Economics Students Needs to Know and Doesn’t get in the Usual Principles Text
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- ISBN 9781780326009
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- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this much-needed companion volume to the popular Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics, Myatt reveal how the blind spots and methodological problems present in microeconomics continue to exert their influence in mainstream macroeconomics. From a flawed conception of the labour market to a Pollyana view of the financial sector, macroeconomic principles as they are set out in conventional undergraduate textbooks consistently fail to set out a realistic, useful or equitable framework for understanding the world. In the light of the global financial crisis and subsequent calls for austerity, the need for a critique of these misguided principles has become all the more pressing. By summarising and then critically evaluating the major topics found in a typical macroeconomics text, the Anti-Textbook lays bare their sins of omission and commission, showing where hidden value judgements are made and when contrary evidence and alternative theories are ignored.
The Macroeconomics Anti-Textbook is the students' essential guide to decoding mainstream macroeconomic textbooks, and demonstrates how real-world economics is much more interesting than most economists are willing to let on.
Tony Myatt received his Ph.D. from McMaster University with a distinction in theory. He has taught at McMaster University, Western University, the University of Toronto, and the University of New Brunswick, where he has been Professor of Economics since 1992. His research interests have included the supply-side effects of interest rates, labour market discrimination, unemployment disparities, the effects of minimum wages, and the methods and content of economic education. He has developed several different introductory courses as vehicles for teaching principles of economics, including Economics of Everyday Life, Critical Perspectives on Economic Theory, and Economics Through Film. He was the recipient of UNB's Arts Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008. Most recently he has been a strident critic of massive tax cuts in his province of domicile, cuts that have led to structural deficits and, subsequently, the inevitable pressure to cut social spending. In 2010 he stood for election to the provincial legislature, and is currently the finance critic for the New Democratic Party.
