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N.B. Not long ago, I posted a Blog, In Search of Meaning and Purpose: The Poets' Guide to Economics, shedding light on how to humanise economics and the economists in order to build a better world.
Today, I have tasked myself to shed light on political poetry, on ‘The Poets’ Guide to Politics’, if you will, to explore the political power of poetry and its capacity to inspire social change. To achieve this goal, I have allowed myself to be inspired and guided by the political poetry and poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who remains ‘one of the most celebrated and influential figures of the Romantic era in English literature. He is recognised for his passionate, lyrical poetry, often infused with intense emotion and radical political ideals. Shelley's work explores themes of love, beauty, nature, and the pursuit of freedom and justice’, all amongst the missing values in this chaotic world of our creation.
Shelley: An Icon of Liberation
Shelley, the poet of moral and political corruption, speaking prophetically to our age
Poet As Prophet: Shelley, People’s Poet
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The Poets’ Guide to Economics could not have been more tailored to capture the eye and the imagination of an economist like me, with a different perspective, idea and vision on economics.
“Economics matter. Bad policies, based on mistaken theories, led to an economic collapse at the end of the 1920s. This set the scene for world-wide conflict in the 1930s. Will today’s economists make a better fist of the 2020s? The years of Keynesian plenty are long gone. Economics seems to be in trouble- too entrenched to be stormed from outside, too narrow to cope on its own. A spate of recent books suggest that prominent economists are worried.In Good Economics for Hard Times (2019), the Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee call for a change of course and conclude:
Economics is too important to be left to economists.
Or, as Robert Skidelsky puts it In What’s Wrong with Economics (2020):
The task is no less than to reclaim economics for humanities.
If Coleridge, Shelley, Scott and the others are looking down from Parnassus they would surely agree, and beg us to pay attention”.- John Ramsden in his introduction to The Poets’ Guide to Economics
Without humanity, economics is a house of cards built on shifting sands.
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Neoliberal economics and the world on the edge of the abyss, serfdom, and servitude
Neoliberalism has denigrated humanity and has destroyed human creativity and potential.
Neoliberal economics is nothing but a false and pernicious ideology that has poisoned our hearts and minds.
This ideology has distorted economics- once upon a time, a subject of beauty, elegance and wisdom- and thus, consequently, economics has been complicit in extraordinarily harmful, amoral, and destructive decisions. A toxic, venomous mix of economics and ideology threw open the door for the brutal reign of neoliberalism, the ideology against humanity.
Lies, damned lies, neoliberal economics and the mumbo jumbo economists