My Cosmic Weekend with Stephen Hawking

by Charles Mudede
This weekend, I had planned to read a new book, Rethinking Economics, about how "other ways of thinking about the economy" can be presented to university students who are forced to subsist on a diet of neo-classical economics (a misnomer if there ever was one—mainstream economics has far less in common with the classical school, or the triumvirate Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, than even Marxism). But after reading a few chapters of this book, I stopped and found that I was in