problem. For decades, their advocates dominated main stream economics, and their influence created a system where an … even those charged with cleaning up the mess. In Zombie Economics, John Quiggin explains how these dead ideas still walk … future. Zombie Economics takes the reader through the origins, consequences, and implosion of a system of ideas whose time …

The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis … is due to a misallocation of research efforts in economics. We trace the deeper roots of this failure to the profession … economics profession has failed in communicating the limitations, weaknesses, and even dangers of its preferred models to the …