[p2p-research] Post-Autistic Economics

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Ryan,

I love Paecon, wrote for them, get the newsletter, and occasionally read
essays.

But as I understand it, it's a pluralistic initiative for all non-mainstream
economic schools and therefore includes, but does not exclude, the marxist
type analyses which regularly appear in the newsletter ... Same for the
Heterodox Economists Association, also recommended,

I read and loved polanyi, should one day read Sen certainly, and if I can
overcome my bias, perhaps one day hayek

Ferguson strikes me as a defender of imperial power, but of course, that
does not make him uninteresting,

Michel

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know if Michel or others have ever covered post-autistic
> economics.  But for the left of center person seeking to find a real but
> still rebellious economic set of arguments, I think this vein is much more
> productive than one is likely to find in contemporary (or certainly
> historical) Marxism.
>
> You can find a lifetime of free readings here: http://www.paecon.net/
>
> I have, as I have said, real sympathies for socialist schemes in some
> societies--Nordic socialism strikes me as particularly effective.  It is, in
> my opinion, an unrealistic option for many places, the US and Japan
> included, but I have great sympathy for the outcomes.
>
> Post-autistic economics is realistic about the efficiencies and necessities
> of markets, but also hammers hard in many cases at preventable causes of
> poverty and gross social injustices.  I do not follow it as closely as I
> once did, but much of the work is worldclass.
>
> People have written me asking what to read:  I'd say read post-autistic
> economics.
>
> Some other books / intros that are worthwhile:
>
> Easterly, William. *The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid
> the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good*. Penguin Press HC, The,
> 2006
> Ferguson, Niall, *The Ascent of Money*, 2008
> Amartya Sen (1995). *Inequality Reexamined*. Harvard University Press.
> Polanyi, Karl, *The Great Transformation*, 1944
> Hayak, Friedrich, The Road to Serfdom, 1944
>
>
> Ryan Lanham
>
>
>
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