- Written by: Kamran Mofid
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‘Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction’
‘A replica of cave paintings in Chauvet cave, France, created around 36,000 years ago. More than 178 species of megafauna are estimated to have been driven to extinction between 52,000 and 9,000BC.'- Photo: Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images/ via The Guardian
‘The story of the damage done to the world’s biodiversity is a tale of decline spanning thousands of years. Can the world seize its chance to change the narrative?’
- Written by: Kamran Mofid
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Neoliberal Economics: A Theater of the Absurd and Absurdity
Global Standardised Economics Education:
Teaching pearls of Wisdom or Indoctrination and Propaganda?
Persuasion and Propaganda in Economic Education
“There is no correlation between ethics and economics”- Lord Kalms’ letter to the Times (08/03/2011): Ethics boys
Sir, Around 1991 I offered the London School of Economics a grant of £1 million to set up a Chair in Business Ethics. John Ashworth, at that time the Director of the LSE, encouraged the idea but had to write to me to say, regretfully, that the faculty had rejected the offer as it saw no correlation between ethics and economics. Quite. Lord Kalms, House of Lords
‘ECONOMICS is “not a ‘gay science,” wrote Thomas Carlyle in 1849. No, it is “a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.”
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Nota bene
To All my fellow Academic Progressive and Values-led Economists and All other Stakeholders
It is Our Responsibility and Duty to Highlight The Destructive Ways and the Falsehood of the Neoliberal, Thatcheroreagonomics and Economists
What we teach our students in the name of economics must change. It must change if it is to play a constructive role in solving the multiple and multi-dimensional crises that so engulf our world, our species, the fabric of human community, relationship, and the web of life. We are running out of time. If our field does not change, if we do not revisit the rich and fertile soil in which our field was born, that being moral philosophy amid the broader questions of human existence, meaning, and ecology, then not only will we have retreated from the chance to play a constructive role in solving these crises, we will inherit well deserved scorn and contempt. The opportunity is upon us. Let us seize it. Carpe Diem!
Calling all academic economists: What are you teaching your students?
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People’s Tragedy: Neoliberal Legacy of Thatcher and Reagan
From Reagan to Trump and from Thatcher to Truss, these here today, gone tomorrow destroyers had one thing in common: