{"id":1056,"date":"2019-06-25T20:59:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2019-06-25T20:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:59:31","slug":"licence-to-be-bad-how-economics-corrupted-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/06\/25\/licence-to-be-bad-how-economics-corrupted-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> By Jonathan Aldred.  Modern economics, the author argues, dismisses ethics in favour of a  narrow focus on self-interest. \u201cThe argument that both parties to a  voluntary transaction must be better off, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t take  place,\u201d he writes, \u201cis used to wash away all considerations of justice,  fairness, responsibility, exploitation and so on.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/books-and-arts\/2019\/06\/06\/the-trouble-with-economics?frsc=dg%7Ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Economist (opens in a new tab)\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Aldred. Modern economics, the author argues, dismisses ethics in favour of a narrow focus on self-interest. \u201cThe argument that both parties to a voluntary transaction must be better off, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t take place,\u201d he writes, \u201cis used to wash away all considerations of justice, fairness, responsibility, exploitation and so on.\u201d The Economist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}