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The Uneconomics debate ran for nine months during 2012, and featured nineteen articles and interviews. Part of its purpose was to usher in a greater diversity of critical and analytical perspectives on economic matters, from academic disciplines that don't typically get a public hearing. It sought to broaden public debate regarding economic institutions and policies, and challenge elite views of the financial crisis. Highlights of the debate were two interviews, one with Andy Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability at the Bank of England, and another with David Potter, founder of Psion, both of which provided fascinating and critical perspectives on financial governance, from those 'inside' the establishment. 

The articles below appear in reverse chronological order, with Will Davies' concluding overview at the top.

Mumbo Jumble: The underwhelming response of the American economics profession to the crisis

Philip Mirowski 28 February 2012
In this extract from his forthcoming book, Never Let a Dire Crisis Go to Waste (Verso), the philosopher and historian of economics Philip Mirowski seeks to explain how the American economics profession has successfully avoided culpability for the economic crisis.

Out of Time: bringing history to bear on economics and policy

Glen O'Hara 22 February 2012
If politicians learned from history, they could avoid repeating its policy mistakes.

The Uneconomics guide to money creation

Oliver Huitson 17 February 2012
In it's latest book, "Where does money come from?", the New Economics Foundation provides one of the sharpest accounts of money creation in recent times. Can your high street bank really create money?

Economics as a public art

Judith Marquand 15 February 2012
Time to move beyond neoliberalism and its convenient amnesia. Economic policy should be practiced as a public art, not an elite science.

Uneconomics: a challenge to the power of the economics profession

William Davies 9 February 2012
The fall-out from the financial crash is continuing to destroy lives around the globe, yet the power of economists is being entrenched, rather than questioned. In this debate, we bring together anthropologists, sociologists, historians and heterodox economists to ask and answer the big questions.

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