TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boldeman, Lee
AB  - The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents disputes the practical value of the shallow, all-encompassing, dogmatic, economic fundamentalism espoused by policy elites in recent public policy debates, along with their gross simplifications and sacred rules. Economics cannot provide a convincing overarching theory of government action or of social action more generally. Furthermore, mainstream economics fails to get to grips with the economic system as it actually operates. It advocates a more overtly experimental, eclectic and pragmatic approach to policy development which takes more seriously the complex, interdependent, evolving nature of society and the economy. Importantly, it is an outlook that recognises the pervasive influence of asymmetries of wealth, power and information on bargaining power and prospects throughout society. The book advocates a major reform of the teaching of economics.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_458926
ID  - OAPEN ID: 458926
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 236173668
KW  - economics
KW  - economic policy
KW  - Age of Enlightenment
KW  - Neoclassical economics
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f61b60c5-73db-4e4d-93d7-951548d5c3b5/458926.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33783
PB  - ANU Press
PP  - Canberra
PY  - 2007
TI  - The Cult of the Market : Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents
ER  - 
