标题:Review of ‘Exasperating Calculators: The Rage Over Economic Rationalism and the Campaign Against Australian Economists’ by William Coleman and Alf Hagger
摘要:T he authors of this book argue that the debate over economic rationalism has damaged Australia. A campaign was launched in 1991 against economic rationalism, an economic policy that was adopted by Australian governments during the 1980s and 1990s. But increasingly the campaign came to be fought against economists. This is because, in the minds of the critics, it is economists who give rise to economic rationalism. Coleman and Hagger use the term 'economic irrationalists' to refer to the critics of economic rationalism and it is convenient for me to do the same in this review