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Becoming An Economist 2018-19 Lecture 01: Paradigms and Anomalies

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This is the first of ten lectures for the Kingston University Economics Undergraduate course Becoming an Economist (EC4001). It starts with the fact that economists disagree with each other because they follow different “paradigms” about what economics is. I compare the state of economics today to the state of astronomy half a millenium ago, when ...

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This is the first of ten lectures for the Kingston University Economics Undergraduate course Becoming an Economist (EC4001).



It starts with the fact that economists disagree with each other because they follow different “paradigms” about what economics is.



I compare the state of economics today to the state of astronomy half a millenium ago, when the empirically accurate but completely wrong Ptolemaic Earth-centric model of the Universe was challenged by the initially less empirically accurate, but structurally correct Copernican Sun-centric model of the Solar System.



I then outline the at least eight different competing paradigms in economics, each of which starts from a quite legitimate question about the nature of the economy.



Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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