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 …

this book should really be assigned to every first-year student of economics. The fact they never will be is the ultimate … testimony to the fact economics has betrayed its own most noble tradition - and Hudson here so magnificently embodies - to …

economics profession -- Academic economics at its dumbest and ugliest -- Violations of professional ethics, whether by ignorance … or intent -- Product evolution and a personal story -- Conclusion: what must be done in academic economics …