When is an economist not an economist?

A fraught question that warrants reflection on who gets to be a member of the influential informal guild

annotations: Les économistes sont-ils égoïstes ?

Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.

Anthropic’s Economist in the Anthropocene

Sometimes Models Collapse

annotations: Les économistes orthodoxes sont incapables d’expliquer les inégalités domestiques et la compétition entre les nations

Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.

annotations: Pourquoi les politiciens ignorent-ils les économistes à propos de l'austérité ?

Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.

Power: A Primer for Perplexed Economists

Let's Assume an Unfettered Marketplace of Ideas! Or Actually, Let's Not.

Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything (Ep. 45)

Is he secretly the best young economist today?

Milton Friedman

Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.

Pourquoi les économistes laissent tomber le monde face au changement climatique ?

Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.

The Syllabus on Twitter / X

In the 1970s, radical economists left the university to work as activists. From the Union for Radical Political Economics to economic affairs bulletins, our book of the week investigates how the New Left changed economics.By Tiago Mata on @CambridgeUPhttps://t.co/aQQi9nqd0C pic.twitter.com/FM1A9nK5vN— The Syllabus (@syllabus_tweets) September 1, 2026

Bataille chez Les économistes atterrés

Le collectif des Economistes atterrés, qui rassemble de nombreux économistes de gauche, traverse une crise interne. Alternatives Economiques donne la parole au…

The Development Economist Who Wasn’t

Once dismissed from the field he helped found, Albert O. Hirschman feels newly relevant.

John Maynard Keynes: the cultured economist who governments turn to in a crisis

A new play about the art-loving Bloomsbury Group member speaks of the enduring battle of ideas with his free-market rival Friedrich Hayek

The end of development economics

Some decades ago, development economists saw their approach as being distinctive compared to mainstream economics in general and better grounded in the reality of actual economies. This column argues that two trends over the last decades – the significant improvement in the average income of what were called developing countries and the homogenisation of economics methodology across the board – mean that the distinction between development economics and economics in general is increasingly untenable and indeed unnecessary.

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, film (Children Of Men, Jason Bourne, Supernanny), fiction (Le Guin and Kafka), work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colors all areas of contemporary experience, is anything but realistic and asks how capitalism and its inconsistencies can be challenged. It is a sharp analysis of the post-ideological malaise that suggests that the economics and politics of free market neo-liberalism are givens rather than constructions. New Edition includes:Forward by Zoe Fisher, Mark’s wife, talking about Mark as a personIntroduction by Alex Niven, his friend and colleague, talking about the political significance of the book thirteen years after it was writtenAfterword by Tariq Goddard, the original editor and publisher, describing the writing and editing of the book, its original reception, and Mark’s own view of it"A quick and entertaining read." Socialist Standard "A provocative and necessary read...for anyone wanting to talk seriously about the politics of education today. " Times Higher Educational Supplement