If you haven't read Eli Siegel on economics then you've missed something big. Studying economics at Oxford I had the feeling economics was mainly statistical, exceedingly complicated, and cold. That suited me in a way, because I didn't like people very much, I'm sorry to say.
Eli Siegel's lectures and essay changed all that. He talks about economics as if people do matter a great deal. In fact, he saw the emotions of people as being a great force in the history and economics of the world. He said that ethics is a force. As a history teacher I have seen that he was right.
This link shows you firsthand what I'm talking about -- and explains, through the commentary by editor Ellen Reiss, things going on now in economics.
Money, America, & Ethics
