What if Everything We Know About the Economy Is Dead Wrong?

How fundamentally wrong or right are the economic theories we use to design much of our social and governmental policy? According to Nick Hanauer, the Seattle-based entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and advocate for fighting inequality, and Eric Beinhocker, an economist at the Blavatnik School of Government and executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford, they are, in fact, all the way wrong. According to the pair, the past century or so of scholarsh...