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What would economics look like if it had succeeded?

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Mainstream economists today see themselves as the descendants of Adam Smith, and they regard their models as having operationalized Smith’s rhetoric about the “invisible hand” of the market. But in fact, they have done the opposite of what Smith imagined: whereas Smith conceived of the market mechanism leading to a socially beneficial outcome despite the ...

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Mainstream economists today see themselves as the descendants of Adam Smith, and they regard their models as having operationalized Smith’s rhetoric about the “invisible hand” of the market. But in fact, they have done the opposite of what Smith imagined: whereas Smith conceived of the market mechanism leading to a socially beneficial outcome despite the intentions of individuals in the market, modern mainstream economics relies upon the fiction of proto-Gods called “rational economic agents” whose expectations are fulfilled.



This is the main new point made in this presentation; I also very quickly explain work done with Paul Ormerod and Rickard Nyman to show that the change in new mortgage debt is the causal factor behind change in house prices.



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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