Macroeconomists are routinely attacked in the press. Perhaps the most recent example, and certainly an egregious one, is an article by David Graeber in the New York Review of Books, published in the December 5 edition. “Against economics” first makes the perplexing claim that monetarism is still the dominant paradigm in macroeconomics, before doing a sharp about-turn to attack the discipline on the more common grounds of its obsession with neoclassical, market-focused ideas.

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