{"id":3270,"date":"2012-01-13T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2012-01-13T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T15:25:27","slug":"the-orthodox-economics-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/the-orthodox-economics-mafia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orthodox Economics &#8220;Mafia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Wray passes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrishayes.org\/articles\/hip-heterodoxy\/\">this piece<\/a> by Chris Hayes (of <em>The<\/em> <em>Nation<\/em> and MSNBC) on the challenge mounted by heterodox economists to the neoclassical consensus.\u00a0 Reporting from the ASSA, Hayes gets into the ways in which the boundaries of the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; are policed in economics.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really worth reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrishayes.org\/articles\/hip-heterodoxy\/\">the whole thing<\/a>.\u00a0 I particularly liked this bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite the fact that as many as one in five professional economists belongs to a professional association that might be described as heterodox, the phrase &#8220;heterodox economics&#8221; has appeared exactly once in the <em>New York Times<\/em> since 1981. During that same period &#8220;intelligent design,&#8221; a theory endorsed by not a single published, peer-reviewed piece of scholarship, has appeared 367 times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Wray passes on this piece by Chris Hayes (of The Nation and MSNBC) on the challenge mounted by heterodox economists to the neoclassical consensus.\u00a0 Reporting from the ASSA, Hayes gets into the ways in which the boundaries of the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; are policed in economics.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really worth reading the whole thing.\u00a0 I particularly liked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[173,171,170,172],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy","tag-behavioral-economics","tag-economics","tag-heterodox","tag-neoclassical-synthesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}