For more than a century, neoclassical theory dominated economic thinking. Neoclassical economics is a theory based on three key assumptions: individuals have rational preferences; individuals maximize ...

Economist Ha-Joon Chang says there are political assumptions in any economic theory; what makes Neoclassical economics different is that its proponents will tell you that their analysis is objective, ...

Vol. 24, No. 3, SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: Economics in the Crisis and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity: STOREP 2015: Special Issue (2016), pp. 117-143 (27 pages) This paper delves into Foucault's ...

With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with ...

Like many students in the Economics Department at The New School for Social Research, Ebba Boye and Ingrid Kvangraven want to widen the lens through which we examine economies. Their approach to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. This article is more than 10 years old. In what academics call ...

Steve Keen is a fellow contributor here at Forbes so this isn't a declaration of all out jihad upon his ideas. Rather, it's to show that one of his contentions about economics and the economy might ...

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Economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why the school of Neoclassical economics that rose in the 19th/early 20th century – now today’s dominant school of economics – decided they wanted to be scientists.