Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements. The Microconomics Anti-Textbook demonstrates this to be a myth - one which serves to make such textbooks not only off-puttingly bland but also dangerously misleading in their justification of the status quo and neglect of alternatives. In this fully updated and expanded edition of their celebrated text, Professors Rod Hill and Tony Myatt lay out the esse...
A brave and innovative economics book which challenges the assumptions, arguments, models and evidence of mainstream textbooks, and puts the excitement and controversy back into the subject. Shows the claims made without evidence and the alternative theories.
Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value judgements, that settles disputes by testing hypotheses, that applies a pre-determined body of principles, and contains policy prescriptions supported by a consensus of professional opinion. This title argues that this is a myth.
