What really counts for our happiness and welfare? Professor Herman Daly on what's important for economic man.
Was the Cold War a battle between capitalism and socialism?
With the Church of England in disarray who better to talk to about dissent and the occupy movement than the legendary turbulent priest.
As anyone familiar with classical political economy knows, true property rights are rooted in self-ownership.
The producer predator divide has always split capitalism. As it pushes society to its logical conclusion populist politicians are trying to cash in – can they really address the root problem?
As you’re aware, at the Renegade Economist we feel there’s a great deal wrong with both the discipline of economics and the kind of economy we’ve ended up with. Much of this can be attributed to the continuing failures in the academic realm so when a book drops onto the doormat with the straightforward title “What went wrong with Economics” we take a particular interest. And on this occasion, our interest was more than justified.
Over the last nine weeks I have looked at the means by which a privileged elite secure for themselves vast quantities of wealth; wealth which, by any reasonable understanding of economics, is unearned and undeserved.