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Oxford University Press, 2010. - 208 pages. "Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked," the editors of The Economist recently observed, "few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself." Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of the economic thinking that had guided policymakers for a generation. But what will take its place? In How the Economy Works, one of our leading...

Routledge, 2001. 381 p. With its unique combination of theoretical models and empirical analyses, this collection of specialists’ essays contributes to an assessment of our understanding of the relationship between cycles, growth and structural change. In this light it also offers a critical evaluation of results in the recent literature on complex and chaotic dynamics. The book is constructed upon the hypothesis that a re-unification of the eco...

Princeton University Press, 2010. - 216 Pages. In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism-the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view specu...