problem. For decades, their advocates dominated main stream economics, and their influence created a system where an … even those charged with cleaning up the mess. In Zombie Economics, John Quiggin explains how these dead ideas still walk … future. Zombie Economics takes the reader through the origins, consequences, and implosion of a system of ideas whose time …

1. An Illusion of Order -- 2. The Power of Beliefs: The Organisational Principles of Economics' Paradigmatic Core -- 3 …. A Sense of Irrelevance -- 4. On Freedom and Justice: A Note Pertaining to Economics' Liberal Connection -- 5. On Human … society and the role of economics in it, arguing that the absence of a beneficial natural order calls for the role of the …

interdisciplinary approach to the study of political economy, with extensive coverage from sociology, economics, history and political … intersection of economics, politics, and society." …