Economics for Everyone: Das Jus Kapital

David Robinson, an economics professor, is dean of the Faculty of Social
Sciences at Laurentian University.

Economics for Everyone is intended “to Enlighten Beginning and Master
Economists Alike.” Philip McShane sets out to provide a new foundation
for economic theory based on the work of B. Lonergan, author of Method
in Theology. According to McShane, “Lonergan’s paradigm shift offers
an underpinning of a lift out of the psychic shrinkage of the West so
eagerly exported to East and South. There are surely some few who will
accept the offer symphonically.”

Like many economists, I genuinely enjoy clever attacks on my own
discipline. But McShane’s weak grasp of economics and his pretentious,
self-involved style take the fun out of it. I have never read a
first-year textbook in economics that wasn’t immeasurably better than
this immodest volume.