Avril 2015
The Economics Anti-Textbook
Juillet 2002
Critical review of Blaug’s article [in french]
The CORE project is a response to students’ protests against teaching in economics. It
wants “to make economics accessible and relevant to today’s problems”. Sadly, it doesn’t distinguish itself from usual (mainstream) “projects” as regards to ideology and basic
CORE project eBook doesn’t escape textbooks’ absurdities. We pinpoint five of them and
book would still be viable if all these absurdities were eliminated.
The CORE project is a response to students’ protests against teaching in economics. It
wants “to make economics accessible and relevant to today’s problems”. Sadly, it doesn’t distinguish itself from usual (mainstream) “projects” as regards to ideology and basic theory . As a consequence, the CORE project eBook doesn’t escape textbooks’ absurdities. We pinpoint five of them and we wonder if the book would still be viable if all these absurdities were eliminated.