Reviews for Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics

The average rating for Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-04-03 00:00:00 Constance Patellos A little more than 80 years ago, laissez-faire economics dominated the Western mentality and the result was one of the worst economic collapses in history. For any American over the age of thirty, public education meant an education that implicated a lack of government regulation as the culprit in destroying the prosperity of a generation. Flash forward to 2008 and the U.S. federal government fails to protect citizens from predatory lending practices that have led to a global credit crisis. Despite the obvious failures of free-market, anti-tax, pro-corporate economics, economists and political pundits alike still intellectually support the failing ideology of conservative economics. In their timely and important work Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics, Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson address not only the economic ideology that passes as fact in the United States, but the intellectual establishment that supports this ideology in the face of real-world contradictory evidence. Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson are both professors of Economics at the University of Manitoba. For readers inside academia, it is no mystery that Economists have increasingly been regulated to obscure journals seldom read even by other professionals. The culprit has largely been the orthodoxy against which Chernomas and Hudson rail. There work is essential for academics and important for any active reader interested in understanding the thought behind our current economic crisis. Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics is available through Arbeiter Ring Publishing. Ben Planet of the Books

Review # 2 was written on 2015-11-04 00:00:00 Ingrida Ledins never thought i'd make it past economics but this book rlly helped honestly so yay!