Economics

A short term project I want to prepare is similar to Scott Young’s MIT challenge except for economics.

Neoliberalism

  • How Neoliberalism Worms Its Way Into Your Brain by NJR, 2018-04-18 | archive
    • Everyone in the discussion, however, is operating on the implicit premise that the measure of whether education is successful is “productivity.”
    • Goldman Sachs produced a report suggesting to biotech companies that curing diseases might not actually be profitable, because people stop being customers once they are cured and no more money can be extracted from them. The liberal response to this would be an empirical argument: “Here’s why it is actually profitable to cure diseases.” The leftist response would be: “We need to have a value system that goes beyond profit maximization.”
    • The fact that everyone seems to agree that the purpose of education is “job skills,” rather than say, “the flourishing of the human mind,” shows the triumph of a certain new kind of liberalism, for which I can only think of one word.
  • The Mythology of Work | archive

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