Economics As If People Really Mattered - Galway Learning Circle, 19 Feb-10 April. Introduction.
Feb 18th, 2013 by Conor McCabe
[Update: slides from week one]
Myself and Vicky Donnelly of the Galway One World Centre are starting a series of workshops on Tuesday entitled, ‘Economics As If People Really Mattered,‘ and I thought I’d start posting material relating to it here.
The first series will run from 19 February to 26 March. We’re hoping to run a second one from 6 March up to 10 April, but that still needs to be confirmed.
The main text is Mary Mellor, The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource (London: Pluto Press, 2010).
Other books that I’ll be drawing upon include:
Geoffrey Ingham, Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008)
- The Nature of Money (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004)
Michael Perelman, Railroading Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006)
Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism (London: Verso Press, reprint 2011)
I’ll post more stuff tomorrow, including slides and some audio, but by way of introduction here’s a video of a talk given by Mary Mellor which deals with mainstream economic analysis and its theoretical blindspots, in particular its reliance on the fictional beast, Economic Man.
Thanks for introducing me to Mary Mellor through the video. And for the list of books. Apart from these books, are there any others you could recommend to the complete layman who wants to know how it works and why it got broke. And maybe what can replace it