{"id":31755,"date":"2022-12-22T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themint.kinsta.cloud\/?p=31755"},"modified":"2022-12-20T21:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:05:56","slug":"anti-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/anti-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"31755\" class=\"elementor elementor-31755\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2851f94c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2851f94c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7fd88c60\" data-id=\"7fd88c60\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3877cb9c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3877cb9c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tony Myatt is a professor of economics in Canada and author, with Rod Hill, of the <em>Economics Anti-Textbook<\/em> in 2010. He has recently published the <em>Macro Economics Anti-Textbook.<\/em> <em>The Mint<\/em> asked him about the inspiration of these textbooks, what traction they have gained compared to standard textbooks, and why mainstream economics is so averse to critical thinking. It turns out the original textbook was the most <u>illegally-<\/u>downloaded eBook ever published by Zed books and led to a lost job for one academic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/themintmagazine.com\/anti-matters-transcript\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Myatt is a professor of economics in Canada and author, with Rod Hill, of the Economics Anti-Textbook in 2010. He has recently published the Macro Economics Anti-Textbook. The Mint &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103,2],"tags":[2326,2322,132,2325,2311],"class_list":["post-31755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-interviews","tag-critical-thinking","tag-dec-2022","tag-economics","tag-textbooks","tag-tony-myatt","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}