The social function of the economics profession is to explain, over and over again, that your boss is actually right and that you don't really want the things you want, and you're secretly happy to be abused by the system.
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@pluralistic I wouldn't deny this is the mainstream economics teaching, but their are some trying to change the narrative I'm sure you have heard Of : Kate Rayworth, Tim Jackson, Yanis Varoufakis, to name three.
I would say economics has globalised, politics can't keep up until it does nothing will change. National #sovereignty has to end.
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Did you mean Kate Raworth ( not Rayworth)?
(And I'd add Mariana Mazzucato as an economist worth paying attention to.)
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here's one you might like
three women Economists, each holding up the other two's books: Raworth, Mazzucato, Kelton
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an impressive trio. We learn a lot by listening to them
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