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Econ 101 is failing college students (with Abigail Acheson and Nouhaila Oudija)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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The Disappointment of Neoclassical Economics

neoclassical economics denies that you should be trying to make the world a better place. It insists that the only social responsibility of business is to maximize profits for shareholders. The three adjectives most commonly used again by a huge margin were unfair unequal poor capitalist and broken and corrupt. And just to add on that perhaps economics doesn't even teach its students to like see capitalism as a system of itself, it's just like applies it.

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