* Section C: What are the myths of capitalist economics?

** C.1 What is wrong with economics?

*** C.1.1 Is economics really value free?

*** C.1.2 Is economics a science?

*** C.1.3 Can you have an economics based on individualism?

*** C.1.4 What is wrong with equilibrium analysis?

*** C.1.5 Does economics really reflect the reality of capitalism?

*** C.1.6 Is it possible to a non-equilibrium based capitalist economics?

** C.2 Why is capitalism exploitative?

*** C.2.1 What is “surplus value”?

*** C.2.2 How does exploitation happen?

*** C.2.3 Is owning capital sufficient reason to justify profits?

*** C.2.4 Is profit the reward for the productivity of capital?

*** C.2.5 Do profits represent the contribution of capital to production?

*** C.2.6 Does interest represent the “time value” of money?

*** C.2.7 Are interest and profit not the reward for waiting?

*** C.2.8 Are profits the result of entrepreneurial activity and innovation?

*** C.2.9 Do profits reflect a reward for risk?

** C.3 What determines the distribution between labour and capital?

** C.4 Why does the market become dominated by Big Business?

*** C.4.1 How extensive is Big Business?

*** C.4.2 What are the effects of Big Business on society?

*** C.4.3 What does the existence of Big Business mean for economic theory and wage labour?

** C.5 Why does Big Business get a bigger slice of profits?

*** C.5.1 Aren’t the super-profits of Big Business due to its higher efficiency?

** C.6 Can market dominance by Big Business change?

** C.7 What causes the capitalist business cycle?

*** C.7.1 What role does class struggle play in the business cycle?

*** C.7.2 What role does the market play in the business cycle?

*** C.7.3 What role does investment play in the business cycle?

** C.8 Is state control of money the cause of the business cycle?

*** C.8.1 Does this mean that Keynesianism works?

*** C.8.2 What happened to Keynesianism in the 1970s?

*** C.8.3 How did capitalism adjust to the crisis in Keynesianism?

** C.9 Would laissez-faire capitalism reduce unemployment?

*** C.9.1 Would cutting wages reduce unemployment?

*** C.9.2 Is unemployment caused by wages being too high?

*** C.9.3 Are “flexible” labour markets the answer to unemployment?

*** C.9.4 Is unemployment voluntary?

** C.10 Is “free market” capitalism the best way to reduce poverty?

*** C.10.1 Hasn’t neo-liberalism benefited the world’s poor?

*** C.10.2 Does “free trade” benefit everyone?

*** C.10.3 Does “free market” capitalism benefit everyone, especially working class people?

*** C.10.4 Does growth automatically mean people are better off?

** C.11 Doesn’t neo-liberalism in Chile prove that the free market benefits everyone?

*** C.11.1 Who benefited from Chile’s “economic miracle”?

*** C.11.2 What about Chile’s economic growth and low inflation?

*** C.11.3 Did neo-liberal Chile confirm capitalist economics?

** C.12 Doesn’t Hong Kong show the potentials of “free market” capitalism?