Name and Link	Type of Resource	Description
Blaug, Mark, Disturbing Currents in Modern Economics Challenge May-June 1998 Available Here and Here	Article	What do economists really know? "Formalism" is the problem, says the author. “Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and practical relevance is nothing."
Post-Autistic Economics Network At this link	Website with links to many articles and books	"Theories, scientific and otherwise, do not represent the world as it is but rather by highlighting certain aspects of it while leaving others in the dark. It may be the case that two theories highlight the same aspects of some corner of reality but offer different conclusions. In the last century, this type of situation preoccupied the philosophy of science. Post-Autistic Economics, however, addresses a different kind of situation: one where one theory, that illuminates a few facets of its domain rather well, wants to suppress other theories that would illuminate some of the many facets that it leaves in the dark. This theory is neoclassical economics. Because it has been so successful at sidelining other approaches, it also is called “mainstream economics......”. "
Tony Lawson, Reorienting Economics Routledge 2003 Available here A list of other relevant selected publications by Tony Lawson can be found here	Book	This book from Tony Lawson contends that economics can profit from a more explicit concern with ontology (enquiry into the nature of existence) than has been its custom. By admitting that economics is not exactly a picture of health at the moment, Lawson hopes that we can move away from the bafflingly intransigent belief that economics is at its core reliant upon mathematical modelling. This maths-envy is the reason why economics is in a state of such disarray. Far from being a polemic against the mainstream, this excellent new book is concerned that if economics is to be saved from itself then there must be a realistic dialogue between the classical heterodox fields. Of interest to philosophers, sociologists and social scientists as well as economists, this comprehensive, logical book is a vital contribution to an important debate.
Tony Lawson, Back to Reality Post-autistic Economics Newsletter : issue no. 6, May, 2001, Available here	Article
Geoffrey Hodgson, How Did Economics Get Into Such a State? Post-autistic Economics Newsletter : issue no. 8, September, 2001, Available here	Article
Geoffrey Hodgson How Economics Forgot History Link to purchase Link to read (some pages not available)	Book	"Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to explain all economic phenomena using the same catch-all theories. He argues that you need different theories and that historical contexts must be taken into account." "How Economists Forgot History' is a great book. It takes things that I dimly knew and exposes them excellently. The issue of 'historical specificity' is vastly important and one that is totally forgotten by most economists who implicitly, and all-too-often explicitly, argue that 'the more general the better'" - Richard Lipsey
Paul Ormerod The Death of Economics John Wiley & Sons Aug 1997 Available Here Extracts available Here	Book	"In this controversial book, Paul Ormerod argues that conventional economics offers a misleading and naive representation of how the world and society actually operates. Ormerod calls for a new more realistic model that takes into account the underlying issues of contemporary realities such as inflation, unemployment, crime, and poverty."
Paul Ormerod Butterfly Economics: A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior Pantheon Books (Jan 2000) Available Here Extracts available Here	Book	"Product Description A beautifully written and engaging look at the cutting edge where economics meets complexity theory. In this cogently and elegantly argued analysis of why human beings persist in engaging in behavior that defies time-honored economic theory, Ormerod also explains why governments and industries throughout the world must completely reconfigure their traditional methods of economic forecasting if they are to succeed and prosper in an increasingly complicated global marketplace. "
Real-World Economics Review Available Here	Journal with access to articles online	"Formerly the post-autistic economics review: an email-delivered economics journal" Subscribers: 10,698 from over 150 countries"
Edward Fullbrook A Guide to What's Wrong with Economics Available Here	Book	"During a time of accelerating momentum for radical change in the study of economics, A Guide to What’s Wrong with Economics comprehensively re-examines the shortcomings of neoclassical economics and considers a number of alternative formulations. In it, a distinguished list of non-neoclassical economists provide a study of some of the many worldly and logical gaps in neoclassical economics, its hidden ideological agendas, disregard for the environment, habitual misuse of mathematics and statistics, inability to address the major issues of economic globalization, its ethical cynicism concerning poverty, racism and sexism and its misrepresentation of economic history. In clear and engaging prose, A Guide to What’s Wrong with Economics shows how interesting, relevant and exciting economics can be when it is pursued not as a defence of an antiquated and close-minded system of belief, but as a no-holds-barred inquiry looking for real-world truths. "
Sheila Dow, A strong argument for pluralism in economic reasoning. Financial Times (Letter) January 2 2009 Available here	Letter to FT