Major Defects of the Market Economy

Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont (2015): Major Defects of the Market Economy.

Abstract

When we characterize an argument that has no sound theoretical foundation as political, then what has been produced by economists so far is political economics. However, since the Classics and Marx all major economic schools have defended the claim that they were doing science. This claim has been convincingly rebutted. So, the task is still before us. The way forward is to move from behavioral to structural economics. In what we should be mostly interested are not so much the behavioral defects of economic agents but the structural defects of the market system and how to repair them.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: new framework of concepts; structure-centric; price mechanism; profit mechanism; structural stress; inefficiency mechanism; monetary order; indexation; growth imperative; theory inflicted unemployment; distribution mechanism
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology > B49 - Other; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B59 - Other; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E1 - General Aggregative Models > E10 - General

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