Economics of the 1% (Anthem Other Canon Economics)

How much do economists really know? In most cases, they claim to have profound knowledge but in fact understand little and obscure almost everything. Most people are convinced that economics should be left to the ‘experts’, when they themselves are perfectly capable of understanding it. This book explains that mainstream economics serves the interests of the rich through its logical inconsistency and unabashedly reactionary conclusions. John F. Weeks exposes the myths of mainstream economics and explains in straightforward language why current policies fail to serve the vast majority of people in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Their failure to serve the interests of the many results from their devoted service to the few.

• Economics: The User's Guide
• Economic Abundance: An Introduction
• Economics: The User's Guide
• Macroeconomics
• Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All
• The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)
• If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise
• The Privileges of Wealth: Rising inequality and the growing racial divide (Economics in the Real World)
• The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)