"Raising interest rates puts the burden of fighting inflation on low-wage workers," notes former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. "For once, let's take aim at an actual driver of inflation: corporate profits."
Unfortunately not from my personal experience; I had the misfortune of getting an advanced degree as a bean counter, so I was taught much of this, and textbooks are extremely dry and neglect to connect much of the reasoning behind the framework, or for that matter even having examples outside of a vacuum with 'completely elastic supply and demand' (l m a o) as it were for things such as econ.
I have heard good things about some of Richard Wolff's work, in particular "Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian", but I'll leave it to others to comment on that particular piece.
Unfortunately not from my personal experience; I had the misfortune of getting an advanced degree as a bean counter, so I was taught much of this, and textbooks are extremely dry and neglect to connect much of the reasoning behind the framework, or for that matter even having examples outside of a vacuum with 'completely elastic supply and demand' (l m a o) as it were for things such as econ.
I have heard good things about some of Richard Wolff's work, in particular "Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian", but I'll leave it to others to comment on that particular piece.
ah thanks :rat-salute-2: