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Friede Gard Lecture 03 Market Demand Curve

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The vision of consumers as utility-maximizers, and the downward sloping market demand curve--so that the quantity demanded of a product rises as its price falls--both seem so plausible. But the former has been contradicted by a very well-structured experiment, while the latter cannot be derived mathematically without incorporating the distribution of income as a fundamental aspect of economics--and Neoclassical microeconomics ignores the distribution of income.

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The vision of consumers as utility-maximizers, and the downward sloping market demand curve--so that the quantity demanded of a product rises as its price falls--both seem so plausible.



But the former has been contradicted by a very well-structured experiment, while the latter cannot be derived mathematically without incorporating the distribution of income as a fundamental aspect of economics--and Neoclassical microeconomics ignores the distribution of income.
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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  1. subscribed because this man is the map for the future of economics. also.. patreon is tax deductible. 🙂

  2. Great series rekindling foggy memory of university courses decades ago. How many lectures are planned?

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