Warum kommt es zu Finanzkrisen? Warum sind die Reichen reich und die Armen arm? Wie funktioniert Geld? Woher kommt das Wachstum? Schon Kinder stellen diese Fragen - aber die Ökonomen können sie nicht beantworten. Ihre theoretischen Modelle haben mit dem realen Kapitalismus nichts zu tun....

This book examines the use, principally in economics, of the concept of the invisible hand, centering on Adam Smith. It interprets the concept as ideology, knowledge, and a linguistic phenomenon. It shows how the principal Chicago School interpretation misperceives and distorts what Smith...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences -- 1.1. The Research Protocols of Economics, the Ironies That Result from Them, and Other Preliminaries -- 1.2. Adam Smith and Some Nobel...

"In "Marx, Dead and Alive" - a book that begins and ends beside Marx's recently violated London graveside - Andy Merrifield makes a case for Karl Marx, a critical thinker who can still offer people a route toward personal and social authenticity. Bolstering his argument with examples of...