Economics used to be called political economy, and the loss of the political tracks the ascendance of the idea of rational choice within the discipline.
Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story.
Largely privately funded with relatively little public regulation, the United States healthcare system is both expensive and inefficient, providing poor care to large parts of the population.
The problem of rent is at the root of vital social concerns in the twenty-first century, ranging from the climate emergency and spiralling economic inequality to the repercussions of global economic crises.
There were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, and Milton Friedman right?
Economics used to be called political economy, and the loss of the political tracks the ascendance of the idea of rational choice within the discipline.
Spiralling inequality since the 1970s and the global financial crisis of 2008 have been the two most important challenges to democratic capitalism since the Great Depression.
What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you re not counted, you don t count.
