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I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
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Those familiar with my writings know well that in the last number of years I have been at the forefront of highlighting the serious shortcomings of modern economics, as well as the failure of the majority of economists who teach and practice the subject. Please note: “the majority of the economists”, of course not all economists are to blame. For a long time now, I have been saying that the current global crises has given us a golden opportunity to ask ourselves some fundamental questions on what economics is or is not. Soul-searching and self-criticism should not be seen as a source of weakness, but as a source of strength, humility and the search for wisdom.
My attempts- as well as those other like-minded colleagues around the world- to shed light on the shortcomings of modern economics have never meant to be an exercise in academic point-scoring. As Winston Churchill once remarked: “The use of recriminating about the past is to enforce effective action at the present.”
Our task- to challenge the delusional mindset of “neoclassical” economists- was no less ambitious. We sincerely wished to name and shame those voices in modern economics that have been responsible for the current tragic global socio-economic crises, and therefore, enable the resurrection of sensible and humane economic policies, and returning the “dismal science” to its true position: a subject of beauty, wisdom and virtue
But, what can I say now?
- The Wisdom of the Ages: A Reflection
- Three Cheers for Moral Philosophy and Down with Economics as a Science
- Why I Love the BBC
- The Broken Capitalism and Cruel Austerity
- Ms. Lagarde: Here are some “Taxing” Questions for You!
- The Green Economy: What the rest of the world can learn from Wales
- The Moral and Spiritual Deficit of Northern European Christine Lagarde