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David Ropeik

David Ropeik

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David Ropeik is an instructor in the Environmental Management Program of the Harvard Extension School, author of How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts, and a consultant on risk perception and risk communication.

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    Dismal Economics

    James K. Galbraith

    Although neoclassical economics relies on assumptions that should have been discarded long ago, it remains the mainstream orthodoxy. Three recent books, and one older one, help to show why its staying power should be regarded as a scandal.

     reviews four books that shed light on the unjustifiable hegemony of the neoclassical school.
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