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About meProfessor of Economics, University of New Brunswick, Canada

GroupsHeterodox Economics, The Economics Anti-Textbook Group

Favorite authorsMoshe Adler (Shared favorites)

Real nameRod Hill

LocationSaint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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Member sinceFeb 21, 2010

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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky

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The Overworked American - The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor

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The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need by Juliet B. Schor

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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet B. Schor

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Predator State How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by JamesGalbraith

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The Skeptical Economist: Revealing the Ethics Inside Economics by Jonathan Aldred

Rod,

I appreciate the invitation to your new group, but I think there is probably too much distance between your views and mine for me to make a contribution. I was trained by an odd combination of early Chicago School types, historians of economic thought and "neo-institutionalists" aka "property rights theorists". Hence, I have no idea what a "free market" means before one defines the cultural and legal institutions that bound said market. OTOH, since to me "free markets" are contextual, so are critiques of free markets. Both the one side and the other seem to miss the real underlying policy debate of what the surrounding institutions look like.

posted by lawecon at 7:39 pm (EST) on Apr 16, 2010