As I see it there are two options here,<br><br>- 'reform' or 'transform' economics, even though it is rotten to the core and the core ideology of oppression and destruction of the biosphere<br><br>- do away with it altogether and start anew<br>
<br>It seems to me that most 'alternative' heterodox thinkers still work on 'rescuing' economics from its neoclassical ideologues ... and this may indeed be a necessary transition towars the kind of integrated provisioning science and decision-making that we need (as defined by Marvin Brown)<br>
<br>and that seems to incude Roberto as well, and the first step seems indeed to redefinie the discipline away from its focus on maintaining and creating scarcity at all costs ..<br><br>question: what do we know of attempts that aim to do completely away with 'economics' ?<br>
<br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Kevin Carson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com">free.market.anticapitalist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson<br>
</div><div class="im">> <<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> :)<br>
>> I notice on<br>
>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology</a><br>
</div>>> "Von Mises writes that�economics, the study of human choice under<br>
<div class="im">>> conditions of scarcity, can be treated as a specialization of praxeology,<br>
>> the study of all human action."<br>
>> ... it makes me wonder, what would be called "the study of human choice<br>
</div>>> under conditions of abundance" ?<br>
<br>
Well, I don't think Mises would consider it economics at all, since<br>
both he and Menger (the founder of the Austrian school) defined<br>
abundant goods ("too cheap to meter") as "noneconomic goods."<br>
<br>
I suppose there could be a meta branch of economics concerning the<br>
shifting balance between economic and non-economic goods, or the<br>
increasing share of consumption that comes from the non-economic<br>
realm.<br>
<br>
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