9781839763793-1839763795-Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists

Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists

ISBN-13: 9781839763793
ISBN-10: 1839763795
Author: C.J. Polychroniou
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Verso
Format: Paperback 432 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781839763793
ISBN-10: 1839763795
Author: C.J. Polychroniou
Publication date: 2021
Publisher: Verso
Format: Paperback 432 pages

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Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists (ISBN-13: 9781839763793 and ISBN-10: 1839763795), written by authors C.J. Polychroniou, was published by Verso in 2021. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Economic Conditions (Economics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economic Conditions books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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Twenty-four economists discuss how they promote egalitarianism, democracy and ecological sanity through research, activism, and policy engagement
Economics and the Left presents interviews with twenty-four leading progressive economists. All of these practitioners of the “dismal science” are dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better. The result is a combustible brew of ideas and reflections on major historical events, including the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the global economy.
Interviewed are: Michael Ash, Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho, James K. Boyce, Ha-Joon Chang, Jane D’Arista, Diane Elson, Gerald Epstein, Nancy Folbre, James K. Galbraith, Teresa Ghilarducci, Jayati Ghosh, Ilene Grabel, Costas Lapavitsas, Zhongjin Li, William Milberg, Léonce Ndikumana, Ozlem Onaran, Robert Pollin, Malcolm Sawyer, Juliet Schor, Anwar Shaikh, William Spriggs, Fiona Tregenna and Thomas Weisskopf.
Review
“This fascinating collection of interviews with 24 leading progressive economists is profoundly entertaining, revealing, more directly than in their published work, how they came to believe what they believe. The lively interviews convey the infectious excitement of doing research on substantive questions of great social importance and a deep commitment to bringing about equitable and sustainable progress in a mixed economy. Each interviewee offers rare insights into their intellectual biographies and motivations that readers will find nowhere else. Each interview has important intellectual lessons to teach to anyone wishing to understand the world and to improve it. Unendingly gripping.”

Servaas Storm, Professor of Economics, Delft University of Technology
“As James Galbraith argues in this book, ‘economics needs two things: glasnost and perestroika.’ This book offers ‘glasnost’ to anyone interested in the work of some of the most remarkable economists working today, economists whose work is effectively censored by the orthodoxy of the profession. The women economists interviewed—including the remarkable Jane D’Arista—are testament to the need to restructure economics so that women’s genius can finally be recognised and celebrated.”

Ann Pettifor, author of The Case for the Green New Deal
“Progressive economists, long voices in the wilderness, have had new influence lately, because the reality they have long described has become demonstrably evident, even to the orthodox. For an introduction to these prophetic voices, you can do no better than to read
Economics and the Left.”

Robert Kuttner, co-editor, The American Prospect
“This is a wonderful collection of interviews with a wide variety of inspiring progressive economists who do not only try to understand the world, but also to change it. I learned a lot from it, even about the economists I thought I knew quite well. Reading this book is an enriching and uplifting adventure!”

Irene van Staveren, Professor of Pluralist Development Economics, Erasmus University
“This collection of engaging, spirited interviews with economists who have put rigorous economic analysis to work for the common good belongs in the hands of every aspiring economics student. Their accounts of the winding paths that led them to economics are unsparingly honest and contain little-known details that illuminate how their early years influenced their later interests. These economists reject the mainstream, neoclassical framework but embrace economic modes of thinking inspired by a large number of writers—Marx among them—and the tools of rigorous economic analysis including statistics and econometrics. These are used to analyze how class and power, and for some the legacies of slavery and patriarchy, structure labor, commodity and financial markets and market outcomes—persistent wage disparities, unequal burdens of care, food and housing insecurity, environmental degradation, financial instability, and wealth inequality. Intel

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