Orthodox economists have failed their own market test

Click here to access article by Seumas Milne from The Guardian.

Many...students, though, have had enough. A revolt against the orthodoxy has been smouldering for years and now seems to have gone critical. Fed up with parallel universe theories that have little to say about the world they're interested in, students at Manchester University have set up a post-crash economics society with 800 members, demanding an end to monolithic neoclassical courses and the introduction of a pluralist curriculum.

It is becoming apparent that economics students are not buy the ruling class's version of economics. The author even implies that this version, whose proponents are intolerant of all others, is about power and domination--in other words, orthodox economics is the academic manifestation of class warfare.