Mao Zedong’s a Critique of Soviet Economics

Principles of Economics: an Austrian Critique

The first edition of Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Economics (1997) textbook has not only made the book’s author rich and famous, but has also gained notoriety for textbook authors in general and for the discipline of economics in particular. The author reportedly received $1 million in advance, the largest advance ever paid to a textbook author. The press reported that the publisher, no doubt...

The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Critique

Economic models of climate change often take the problem seriously, but paradoxically conclude that the optimal policy is to do almost nothing about it. We explore this paradox as seen in the widely used DICE model. Three aspects of that model, involving the discount rate, the assumed benefits of moderate warming, and the treatment of the latest climate science, explain the timidity of the mode...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Critical Realism in Economics and Open-systems Ontology: a Critique

This paper examines the treatment of ontology offered by Critical Realism. Three main criticisms are made of the Critical Realist treatment of open systems. It is argued that Critical Realism, particularly in the project in economics emanating from Cambridge, UK, tends to define systems in terms of events. This is shown to be problematic. The exemplar of a closed system provided by Critical Rea...

Critique of Research Book (Literature)/A Critique of Kimia of Rumi’s Haram, Sadaf Golmoradi

A Critique of Kimia of Rumi’s Haram Sadaf Golmoradi/ Professor at Tehran Farhangian University, [email protected] Abstract The present research is aimed at introducing and reviewing Kimia of Rumi’s Haram. Although the book does not mention in the title that it is in face a critique but we see that it is an essay based on "... the critique of novels Kimiakhatoon, Rumi’s Daughter, and the ...