Ep 44 - Economics: What Is To Be Done?

Garrett & I are joined by three heterodox economics professors to give a more Marxist view of economics from the usual neoclassical dross that gets proffered elsewhere. Youssef Khodaparast, Erik Dean, and Mitch Green are three PhD holders in Econ who help break down why we talk about economics as this mystical thing and hold economists and Alan Greenspan-types up as these High Priests of Modernity who can somehow divine reality for the rest of us. (The photo is of Marley the Good Dog, who is why Youssef had to leave early.) Check out Youssef's blog at https://myecopoli.blogspot.com/ - Read Erik & Mitch's textbook _Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning_ : http://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/socialprovisioning/ - Contact Mitch via twitter: twitter.com/mitchgreennep - Recs: - Paul LeBlanc's _October Song_ Eyes Left Hell of a Way to Die DSA Veteran's Caucus Red Dead Redemption 2 Spielbergs Detroiters Cedric J Robinson's Black Marxism - The show got mentioned in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling - Ending tune: "4AM" by Spielbergs - https://bythetimeitgetsdark.bandcamp.com/track/4am ---- Hear Garrett's band Late Shift at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/ - @comradegarrett @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - The Homo Vulgaris podcast - https://soundcloud.com/hvulgaris - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.