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How Does Economics Corrupt The World? - Jonathan Aldred, author of "The Skeptical Economist"
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How Does Economics Corrupt The World? - Jonathan Aldred, author of "The Skeptical Economist"
FromCurrent Affairs
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Apr 12, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Jonathan Aldred is an economist at Cambridge University, but he is a fierce critic of the mainstream of his discipline. In his books The Skeptical Economist and License to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us, Prof. Aldred argues that while economics poses as a value-free form of scientific inquiry, it contains many buried assumptions that have deeply pernicious implications. Aldred's books offer excellent, clearly-written explanations of what economics is and how many of its most popular concepts bias our thinking about the world and rationalize selfishness and amorality.
Released:
Apr 12, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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