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Suresh Naidu teaches economics, political economy and development at Columbia University. Naidu previously served as a Harvard Academy Junior Scholar at Harvard University and as an instructor in economics and political economy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Naidu holds a BMath from University of Waterloo, an MA in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
They can give up free-market orthodoxy, but still can’t bring themselves to embrace labor.
Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive.
Rather than oracles channeling a supply-and-demand deity, economists should be enablers of democratic priorities.
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