What are the issues of rent-seeking and special interests?

Sep 6, 2013 ... Barbera on the Case Against Mainstream Economics ... Robert Barbera, a regular contributor to the Levy Institute's Minsky conferences, has a great ... The mainstream economic approach is doggedly nonjudgmental about people's preferences: what the individual wants is presumed to be good for that individual. Nov 1, 2014 ... The core capitalist economies are experiencing secular stagnation, characterized by slow growth, rising unemployment and underemployment, and idle productive ... In this paper we ask, what is mainstream economics education conveying to its students? Standard mainstream economics textbooks treat the environment as a. Apr 1, 2006 ... The Turn in Economics: Neoclassical Dominance to Mainstream Pluralism? John B. Davis. Marquette University, [email protected]. Published ... Apr 2, 2019 ... “In a Malthusian economy where intensive growth is not possible, strong property rights simply reinforce the existing distribution of resources. Jan 31, 2023 ... Mainstream or "orthodox" economics comprise of solely the neoclassical economics in microeconomics and a synthesis of neoclassical and Keynesian economics in a ... Mar 26, 2017 ... A defence of the idea that attacking mainstream economics is a progressive endeavor. Not criticising mainstream economics - I've done plenty of that - but ... period may be an empty set. Key words: heterodox, mainstream, neoclassical, orthodox, schools of thought. Economics, like ... Nov 19, 2020 ... Neoclassical economics is current economic theory as we teach it. But rather than writing that straight down I figured I'd better go and check.