Beyond Tweedledum and Tweedledee Economics

James Galbraith talks about the mechanisms by which obstacles are placed in the way of dissenting and original voices in economics, as well as the failure of most in the forefront of the profession to see the global financial crisis coming (via INET):

Galbraith has written about this before; surveying the work of those who got it right, as well as the narrow parameters of prevailing doctrine:  “This is the extraordinary thing. Economics was not riven by a feud between Pangloss and Cassandra. It was all a chummy conversation between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. And if you didn’t think either Tweedle was worth much—well then, you weren’t really an economist, were you?” (read it here).