Econned (2010) by Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism is on the same track From: Dante-Gabryell Monson Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 9:57 AM To: p2p-foundation ; [email protected] Subject: [P2P-F] "The Economics Anti-Textbook" ? 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, are biased towards the support of free market or 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. ... 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[1] and the book has attracted positive comment on various blogs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation