Title: Bias and misunderstanding of economics
Product review: While there is some interesting information in the book, it seems to be riddled with errors and sloppy research. It also has quite an amount of bias - for example Strathern says that the three greatest economists are Marx, Smith and Keynes. Marx isn't even an economist. Further - 'Franklin D. Roosevelt, the greatest president of all'. He might have been a reasonable president - but the greatest of all?? The Great Depression didn't prove Keynes right. Actually, the New Deal slowed the growth of the US out of the depression (see for example the recent International Monetary Fund World Economic Outlook 2002 (recoveries and recessions). There are many other errors in economics understanding. (This book is titled 'Dr Strangelove's Game' in Australia
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