In 2010, Michael Hudson described the American crisis management strategy of printing money at the expense of the rest of the world. What we are currently experiencing can be seen as the endgame of what Hudson describes.
Richard Smith (2013) argues that capitalism’s growth imperative and extreme inequality are incompatible with living within planetary boundaries, and that a transition to a different form of economy is therefore imperative.
Neva Goodwin (2021) looks at the origins of consumerism as an economic and cultural model and how to overcome it.
There are many more articles in the volume that hold much interesting analysis for readers with a background in economics. I’ll let the titles speak for themselves. You can download a PDF of the entire anniversary issue, or PDFs of individual articles, using the links below.
Introduction to RWER issue 100
Real Science Is Pluralist
issue no. 5 – 2001 Edward Fullbrook
Is There Anything Worth Keeping in Standard Microeconomics?
issue no. 12 – 2002 Bernard Guerrien
How Reality Ate Itself: Orthodoxy, Economy & Trust
issue no. 18 – 2003 Jamie Morgan
What is Neoclassical Economics?
issue no. 6 – 2006 Christian Arnsperger and Yanis Varoufakis
A financial crisis on top of the ecological crisis: Ending the monopoly of neoclassical economics
issue no. 49 – 2009 Peter Söderbaum
U.S. “quantitative easing” is fracturing the Global Economy
issue no. 55 – 2010 Michael Hudson
Capitalism and the destruction of life on Earth: Six theses on saving the
humans
issue no. – 64 Richard Smith
Secular stagnation and endogenous money
issue no. 66 – 2014 Steve Keen
Piketty and the resurgence of patrimonial capitalism
issue no. 69 – 2014 Jayati Ghosh
Capital and capital: the second most fundamental confusion
issue no. 69 – 2014 Edward Fullbrook
Deductivism – the fundamental flaw of mainstream economics
issue no. 74 – 2016 Lars Pålsson Syll
Radical paradigm shifts
issue no. 85 – 2018 Asad Zaman
Growthism: its ecological, economic and ethical limits
issue no. 87 – 2019 Herman Daly
Producing ecological economy
issue no. 87 – 2019 Katharine N. Farrell
Economism and the Econocene: a coevolutionary interpretation
issue no. 87 – 2019 Richard B. Norgaard
Inequality challenge in pursued economies
issue no. 92 – 2021 Richard C. Koo
What is economics? A policy discipline for the real world
issue no. 96 – 2021 James K. Galbraith
Consumerism and the denial of values in economics
issue no. 96 – 2021 Neva Goodwin
Of Copernican revolutions – and the suddenly-marginal marginal mind at the dawn of the Anthropocene
issue no. 96 – 2021 Richard Parker
Postscript: RWER is for everyone and no one
Jamie Morgan
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