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Communication and the Transformation of Economics

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Communication and the Transformation of Economics

Essays in Information, Public Policy, and Political Economy

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Robert E. Babe

University of Ottawa

Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries

First published 1995 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge

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To Warren f. Samuels and

to CRITICAL: Students for Socially Responsible Communication

We human beings are being led to a dead endall too literally. We are living by an ideology of death and accordingly we are destroying our humanity and killing the planet.

Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. (1989)

Contents

Gratitude is expressed to Professor Herbert I. Schiller for his interest in including this volume in his Westview Press series on Critical Communication. I am indeed pleased and honored to contribute to this series.

Thanks are expressed also to those who originally commissioned or suggested work appearing here: Hank Intven, Warren J. Samuels, Vincent Mosco, Kosta Gouliamos, Gertrude Robinson, Rowland Lorimer, Barri Cohen, and Jean McNulty.

Appreciation is extended as well to those who read and commented on at least portions of the manuscript: Ian Parker, Kerry Pither, Frank Mller, Irene Spry, Kosta Gouliamos, Heather Menzies, Thomas Guback, Fred Bigham, Gary Hauch, and Kathryn Fredericks.

I continue to benefit from, and to be inspired by the teaching of my mentors, Warren J. Samuels and Walter Adams, even though nearly twenty-five years have passed since I left economics at Michigan State University. Warren initiated me into the joys of intellectual history, to the classical theory of economic policy, and to institutional economics. Walter introduced me to power in economics (political economy), suggested that I become familiar with the works of Kenneth E. Boulding, and like Professor Samuels, encouraged me to explore the limitations of economic orthodoxy and not to disdain unconventional wisdom.

I have learned much from my students over the years. Indeed, several of them are cited above, in the notes, and in the bibliography. Students in the Department of Communication who formed the association CRITICAL: Students for Socially Responsible Communication Study inspired a good deal of what appears here. Among my fondest memories of the Department of Communication at University of Ottawa will be the integrity, idealism, activism, and perseverance of these students in the face of concerted opposition.

I would also like to thank the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, for providing a grant in aid of publication, and extending me a six month leave during which portions of the present manuscript were prepared.

Finally, the loving support of Jane, David, Mary, Michael, and Daniel was vital to the successful completion of this project. Thank you.

Robert E. Babe

University of Ottawa

This book is written in the conviction that mainstream (or neoclassical) economics is leading us to a dead-end. In the words of Herman Daly and John Cobb, economic orthodoxy is an ideology of death, destroying our planet and debasing our humanity.

Fortunately, neoclassical economics is not immutable truth; it does not depict with exacting precision and nuanced insight inexorable economic laws or ineluctable economic processes. Neoclassicism, rather, is mere social construction. It is a product of the human mind, or rather a product of the thinking of a small community of humans known as neoclassical economists, whose doctrines have spread into the very corridors of political and economic power. Todays mainstream or neoclassical economics consists largely of deductive reasoning based on a set of restrictive and (in the words of neoclassicist Milton Friedman) descriptively false assumptions. Useful undoubtedly to some, particularly the rich and powerful, as a schema or paradigm for interpreting economic life, mainstream economics remains nonetheless social construction.

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