What do the Soviet Union and the current British economy have in common? What can studying the philosophy of science reveal about our economic systems? Is the depoliticisation of economics a dangerous pipe dream?

Join political economist Abby Innes as she argues that treating society as a closed system that can be controlled and regulated ignores man's unrelenting capacity for new ideas and technologies. Abby Innes is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at the LSE.

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Why the neoclassical philosophy of economics is fundamentally flawed | Abby Innes

Philosophy For Our Times

Why the neoclassical philosophy of economics is fundamentally flawed | Abby Innes