A rambling post on Joseph Heath's "Filthy Lucre"

This was supposed to be a review of Joseph Heath's new book "Filthy Lucre: Economics for People who hate Capitalism". But I'm not used to doing book reviews, so it's going to turn into a ramble on the teaching of economics, and economics in the political spectrum.

I got the call to act as "host" (sort of interviewer) for Joseph Heath at the Ottawa Writers Festival. I said "yes", because I had really enjoyed his previous book (with Andrew Potter), "The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture can't be jammed". Quick and dirty synopsis: "Forget it Naomi Klein fans; the marketing guys are waaay ahead of you!" Actually there's a lot more than that in what is an incredibly wide-ranging book on philosophy, politics, culture, economics, and stuff.