[pp.int.general] TAN: Anti neoclaccical economics manifesto

[Daniel Riaño]

I don't know who they are, don't know how serious this is, and I don't know
how much it is linked to the economics of the new technologies' society, but
this would be the first time that the students of Economics start a
revolution!

 Published at <
http://anticap.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/jamming-neoclassical-economics/>:

Students at the University of California-Berkeley have launched the first
> salvo in an international movement to challenge neoclassical economics. They
> printed the Kick It Over Manifesto [pdf] on bright pink paper and pinned it
> to the door of Daniel McFadden, a Nobel Prize winner in economics [pdf], and
> to bulletin boards throughout the department.
>
>    The goal was to disrupt the obliviousness of students and teachers who
> preach the self-destructive consumerist lie that societies should pursue
> economic growth. It worked: the manifesto hit a nerve.
>
>    Within three hours, an adjunct professor emailed Adbusters to justify
> his approach to teaching economic theory. But he concluded with a defiant
> flare: "I have a fairly strong hunch that you are mistaken about the system
> crumbling, or the imminent loss of relevance of mainstream economics. In all
> likelihood my students will continue to have considerable influence on the
> body politic for many years to come."
>
> Here is the text of the manifesto:
>
>    We, the undersigned, make this accusation: that you, the teachers of
>> neoclassical economics and the students that you graduate, have perpetuated
>> a gigantic fraud upon the world.
>>
>>    You claim to work in a pure science of formula and law, but yours is a
>> social science, with all the fragility and uncertainty that this entails. We
>> accuse you of pretending to be what you are not.
>>
>>    You hide in your offices, protected by your mathematical jargon, while
>> in the real world, forests vanish, species perish and human lives are
>> callously destroyed. We accuse you of gross negligence in the management of
>> our planetary household.
>>
>>    You have known since its inception that one of your measures of
>> economic progress, the Gross Domestic Product, is fundamentally flawed and
>> incomplete, and yet you have allowed it to become a global standard,
>> reported day in, day out in every form of media. We accuse you of recklessly
>> projecting an illusion of progress.
>>
>>    You have done great harm, but your time is coming to a close. Your
>> systems are crumbling, your flaws increasingly laid bare. An economic
>> revolution has begun, as hopeful and determined as any in history. We will
>> have our clash of economic paradigms, we will have our moment of truth, and
>> out of each will come a new economics-open, holistic, human-scale.
>>
>>    On campus after campus, we will chase you old goats out of power. Then,
>> in the months and years that follow, we will begin the work of reprogramming
>> your doomsday machine.
>
>
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