Economics and Its Enemies Two Centuries of

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the mainstream of economic thought that has existed from the 18th century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relation to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes, and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers. William Coleman examines how anti-economics developed from the Enlightenment to the present day and analyzes its various guises; Right anti-economics, Left anti-economics, Nationalist and Historicist anti-economics and Irrationalist, Moralist, Aesthetic, and Environmental anti-economics.

William Oliver Coleman is at the School of Economics, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Acknowledgements

x

Part I

The Damnation of Economics

3

(20)

The phenomenon of anti-economics

3

(4)

The identity of the accuser

7

(1)

The identity of the accused

8

(3)

`A fine bill of indictment': an inventory of the charges against economics

11

(6)

An overview of the analysis

17

(6)

Part II

The `Wretched Procurers of Sedition'

23

(28)

Enlightenment dissenters

23

(7)

Counter-revolutionary convictions

30

(7)

The `consuming pestilence to the empire'

37

(8)

Twentieth-century revivals

45

(2)

Right and Left: an analysis

47

(4)

The `Apostles of the Rich'

51

(14)

The Judas of the Revolution

52

(2)

The market and the social order

54

(2)

Hired prize-fighters

56

(9)

The Dream of Nationhood

65

(25)

The `fraction of the human race'

66

(2)

The national economists

68

(12)

Twentieth-century reformulations

80

(5)

Pseudo-science and pseudo-history

85

(2)

Does anti-economics have a nationality?

87

(3)

The Totalitarian State and the `Economist-Scoundrels'

90

(17)

Stalinism

91

(8)

Nazism

99

(8)

Part III

`The General Contagion of its Mechanic Philosophy'

107

(12)

`The Jacquerie and the march of the mind'

107

(6)

The illogical song

113

(3)

`The master tool of corporate enslavement'

116

(1)

`Schools for All'

116

(3)

Moral Economy

119

(17)

The moralist and the scientist

120

(3)

The moralist against the economist

123

(1)

Moralism resurgent

124

(7)

The judges judged

131

(5)

The Religion of Love and the Science of Wealth

136

(27)

The discovery of egoism

136

(7)

Economics as the science of venality

143

(7)

Economics, selfishness and humanity

150

(9)

Anti-economists against the religion of love

159

(4)

Crusaders and Consumers

163

(15)

The sacred versus the civilised

164

(3)

Nature's temple

167

(6)

The heathen as the philistine

173

(5)

Rival Gospels of Wealth

178

(13)

The conquest of nature

178

(3)

The triumph of energy

181

(3)

The gospel of technology and engineering

184

(1)

The gospel of work

185

(6)

Part IV

The `Unconquerable Private Interests'

191

(9)

The disharmony of interests: an argument

191

(3)

A harmony of interests: a thesis

194

(1)

Interested anti-economics appraised

195

(1)

The interests of an interest

196

(1)

Vested ideals

197

(3)

`The Infallible Dicta of the Holy Mother Church of Political Popery'

200

(13)

Authority: the attack

201

(3)

The public and the economists

204

(9)

`Economists, Glory to You and the Jews!': a Postscript on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Economics

213

(7)

The logic of the homology

213

(5)

Conclusions and qualifications

218

(2)

The Not-so-Puzzling Failure of Anti-Economics

220

(19)

The apparatus of criticism

220

(6)

The origins of dysfunction

226

(5)

In defence of criticism

231

(8)

Notes

239

(37)

Bibliography

276

(32)

Index

308

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