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Pubblichiamo con qualche trepidazione alcune pagine sul socialismo, partecipando a modo nostro all'anniversario e soprattutto al dibattito sul futuro della sinistra. Altruismo, incentivi e informazione: due o tre cose che so sull’esperienza socialista Sergio Cesaratto <What does the economist economize? "'Tis love, 'tis love," said the Duchess, "that makes the world go round." "Somebody said," whispered Alice, "that it's done by everybody minding their own business." "Ah well," replied...

I discussed long ago what it means to be heterodox in economics. Bob Kuttner, who I once saw giving a talk at the New School (in the 1990s), a very sharp journalist that knows quite a bit about economics, sings the praises of Dani Rodrik as an heterodox economist. I discussed Rodrik before, in particular his notion that there is only one economics (neoclassical, of course as in the title of his book One Economics, Many Recipes). And he is not subtle about it either. As I noted back then, in...