Economics Education: Soft-CORE Reforms or Radical Pluralism?
Besides outright repression, one of the most predictable establishment responses to a revolutionary challenge is an effort at co-optation. Without ceding any real power, authorities respond to...
View ArticlePiketty Puts Capital in the Crosshairs [VIDEO]
Ask your economics professor this: If economic growth is supposed supposed to make everyone better off, how do you explain the dramatic rise in income and wealth inequality over the last 30 years? As,...
View ArticleCalling all Rebel Economists!
After smothering progress for decades, the mainstream stranglehold on economic thought is finally slipping. With the recent rise of student protest movements like the International Student Initiative...
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Declaring a Meme War at the American Economic Association Conference
Let the Meme Wars begin! The high priests of mainstream economics received a feisty welcome to the American Economic Association conference in Boston on Friday as a group of intrepid rebel economists...
View ArticleJamming the economic high priests at the AEA
Last weekend, at the American Economic Association conference, the rebel economists with Kick It Over proved the power of the Meme War. You can read an account of the actions we took in a recent...
View ArticleKick It Over on Al Jazeera
Ask your economics professor this: If you support academic free inquiry, why don’t we have a pluralist economics curriculum? Why aren’t multiple schools of economic thought (Marxian, Post-Keynesian,...
View ArticleRising Arrogance and Declining Debate in Economics
Two recently released studies have highlighted very dangerous trends in mainstream economics that shield the profession from the kind of reflexive critical thinking that’s needed to keep it honest and...
View ArticleCan a band of rebel economists change economic thought before it’s too late?
To the uninitiated, Carmen Reinhart’s reaction to our protest at her talk at the American Economic Association conference might seem understandable. After all, our group of rebel economics students...
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