The contradictions between what is taught in economics and what is taught in business and marketing schools is quite fascinating, especially in those cases where the school of economics sits under the faculty of business. Also, what is it with all these Canadian economists I find myself following? Your work here dovetails nicely with Nitzan & Bichler’s “Capital as Power” and their concept of differential accumulation. All pieces of the puzzle, in figuring out how to design en economy that doesn’t collapse doing degrowth.
I have good news and bad news, both of which are that I am not an economist. I was a policy researcher and then was a politician and leader of a provincial party.
I will check out Capital as Power. I was prepping for a PhD but other things got in the way because I worked in business and government - often near the bottom of things - and nothing that economics described was remotely accurate.
LOL, neither am I!! Just finishing a Master of Political Economy, but I often just say “economist” because it’s easier than explaining how political economy is different. I’ve also run as a Greens candidate a few times. Not sure what the threshold of “being” a politician is - being recognised in the supermarket? Having 60 corflutes of my face in the shed? Actually winning the seat?
The contradictions between what is taught in economics and what is taught in business and marketing schools is quite fascinating, especially in those cases where the school of economics sits under the faculty of business. Also, what is it with all these Canadian economists I find myself following? Your work here dovetails nicely with Nitzan & Bichler’s “Capital as Power” and their concept of differential accumulation. All pieces of the puzzle, in figuring out how to design en economy that doesn’t collapse doing degrowth.
I have good news and bad news, both of which are that I am not an economist. I was a policy researcher and then was a politician and leader of a provincial party.
I will check out Capital as Power. I was prepping for a PhD but other things got in the way because I worked in business and government - often near the bottom of things - and nothing that economics described was remotely accurate.
LOL, neither am I!! Just finishing a Master of Political Economy, but I often just say “economist” because it’s easier than explaining how political economy is different. I’ve also run as a Greens candidate a few times. Not sure what the threshold of “being” a politician is - being recognised in the supermarket? Having 60 corflutes of my face in the shed? Actually winning the seat?