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Breadtube vs Economics #3: Response to Contrapoints (and Piketty) on Capitalism

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I am an academic economist from the UK who has long been critical of the economics profession and how economics is used in public policy. Mostly the channel will cover economics with a critical perspective but I aim to educate people about economics in the process, so I'll try to explain key concepts and ideas along the way. That way, even if you disagree with aspects of the videos you will hopefully learn something from them. Subscribe for more!



Part 1 of my series on Breadtube and Economics - Response to Philosophy Tube on Housing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vfx1kQlmOk

Part 2 – Response to Shaun on Trains:

https://youtu.be/kjJNWj0QhAg



Contrapoints’ videos on Capitalism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJW4-cOZt8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR7ryg1w_IQ



References (in rough order of appearance)

Various Ibn Khaldun references:

Ibn Khaldun, the Father of Economics, Ibrahim M. Oweiss. https://faculty.georgetown.edu/imo3/ibn.htm

Ibn Khaldun and Adam Smith: Contributions to Theory of Division of Labor and Modern Economic Thought, James R. Bartkus and M. Kabir Hassan. https://muslimheritage.com/ibn-khaldun-and-adam-smith-contributions-to-theory-of-division-of-labor-and-modern-economic-thought/

The Amazing Arab Scholar Who Beat Adam Smith by Half a Millennium, Dániel Oláh. https://evonomics.com/amazing-north-african-scholar-beat-adam-smith-half-millennium/

Ibn Khaldûn: A Fourteenth-Century Economist, Jean David C. Boulakia. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/259818

Who was Ibn Khaldun?, Institute for Economic Affairs. https://iea.org.uk/films/school-of-thought-with-benedikt-koehler/

The History of Capitalism: Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism, Benedikt Koehler. http://ummaticinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/early-islam-and-the-birth-of-capitalism-by-benedikt-koehler-the-history-of-capitalism-series-legatum-institute-20-february-2014.pdf



Chapter 1: On the Division of Labour, Adam Smith. Wealth of Nations. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/wealth-of-nations/book01/ch01.htm



What Do Bosses Do? The origins and functions of hierarchy in capitalist production, Part I, Stephen Marglin. https://scholar.harvard.edu/marglin/publications/what-do-bosses-do



Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty

Pocket Piketty, A Handy Guide To Capital In The Twenty-First Century, Jesper Roine.

It’s bargaining power all the way down, Josh Mason. https://crookedtimber.org/2015/12/15/its-bargaining-power-all-the-way-down/



After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality, Heather Boushey, J. Bradford Delong, and Marshall Steinbaum.

See especially the chapters:

A Political Economy Take on W/Y, Suresh Naidu.

Towards a Reconciliation between Economics and the Social Sciences, Thomas Piketty.
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (7 May 1971) is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is a professor (directeur d'études) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial professor at the London School of Economics new International Inequalities Institute.

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