Post-truth: an alumni economist’s perspective

Ben Fine

International Review of Applied Economics, 2019, vol. 33, issue 4, 542-567

Abstract: Drawing upon 50 years as an academic economist, this lecture to alumni of SOAS’s Department of Economics reflects upon the continual ‘post-truth’ aspects of mainstream economics, ranging over its substantive, if shifting, content, and its treatment of methodology and interdisciplinarity. It draws upon a wide range of theory, empirical analysis, policy and anecdote to highlight both the need for alternatives and the continuing, even increased, failure of the mainstream to engage with criticism and alternatives.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2019.1617252

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