ABSTRACT
Edward Fullbrook has asked me to contribute to the post-autistic economics newsletter. Since he also told me that my after-dinner speech to the social economists’ meeting at Cambridge last year was the irritant that led him, as the oyster, to create this particular pearl of a newsletter, what else could I do but oblige? More importantly, I want to contribute something positive and useful to the ongoing debate in France (and, I hope, elsewhere) on the teaching and scope of economics.
