http://www.scribd.com/doc/27119883/The-Economics-Anti-Textbook-A-Critical-Th... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economics_Anti-Textbook The main thrust of the authors' argument is that basic economics courses, being centered around models of perfect competition<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition>, are biased towards the support of free market<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market> or laissez-faire <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire> ideologies, and neglect to mention conflicting evidence or give sufficient coverage of alternative descriptive models. An example of the book's approach is the theories surrounding minimum wage<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage> . ... The book presents their own paradigm for interpreting economic behaviour. Despite not yet being reviewed in mainstream journals, as of February 2011 the introductory chapter has received 13,000 views onstumbleupon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumbleupon> [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economics_Anti-Textbook#cite_note-0> and the book has attracted positive comment on various blogs