Once, economics was the scientific field where the most passionate battles were fought between opposing ideological armies. The highest form of political confrontation. The equations of economists reflected alternative views on the good and just society. Their mathematics was passionate. Their geometry dripped with ideological enthusiasm. Today, nothing resembles that era. Today, economics is simply tiring. Our textbooks remind us of the user manuals of some software package.
To the "beginners," we say: we may disagree among ourselves, but you are not mature enough to hear us argue. Learn your textbooks as if they were a piece of cake, and then come talk to us. Unfortunately, few wait. They abandon us daily and in droves, turning to pseudo-sciences like marketing, advertising, etc.
Yanis Varoufakis's "Political Economy" aims to invigorate the teaching of economics. To stir passions while igniting logic. To teach economic theory by putting it, from the very first page, under the light of criticism. To guide beginners through the wild beauties of the world of economic ideas. To protect them from the "sterile" manuals that anxiously pretend economics is a series of solved problems.
To carve out a middle path between technical skills and philosophical predisposition; between cold geometric logic and political passion; between the mathematical representation of theorems and their continuous questioning of axioms; between focus on explaining empirical "data" and doubt about what is "given."
The book: -Summarizes the essence of each branch of economic science -Explores the extensions of these basic concepts in the theory of international trade, globalization, monetary policy, etc. -Asks: What is, ultimately, the significance of economic theory today? Why is the field of economics in such a deep crisis?
Number of pages
567
Cover
Hardcover
Year of publication
2007
Publisher
Gutenberg
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