For the economics profession, issues of marketing and ideology have often been reduced to the status of 'the love that dare not speak its name'. This volume brings these issues out of the closet and examines what effect, if any, these factors have in shaping the contours of the discipline. The...

Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman's prediction has not come true. In Where Economics Went Wrong, David Colander and Craig Freedman argue that it never will....

Freedman, Craig: When change is not reform : transforming the Japanese economy Pt. 1: Necessary change or shameless surrender? Economic reform in Japan Pt. 2: The fine art of financial incompetence Pt. 3: Japanese firms : happy families or anonymous corporate structures? Pt. 4: Producing a more...