{"id":207,"date":"2017-02-22T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/?p=207"},"modified":"2020-02-14T23:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T23:42:16","slug":"should-we-abandon-classical-economics-ufv-lecture-on-marconomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/2017\/02\/22\/should-we-abandon-classical-economics-ufv-lecture-on-marconomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Should We Abandon Classical Economics? Dr. Ken Blawatt Lecture on Marconomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Friday, March 10, 2017,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>12:30\u20132 pm,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>ABC 1427<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The School of Business is pleased\u00a0to host\u00a0the second 2017 Research Seminar presented by\u00a0Dr. Ken R. Blawatt, UFV School of Business.<\/p>\n<p>Economics is now under some pressure to improve, if not change its premise. In the last few decades noteworthy economists, leading academics and business leaders worldwide, have expressed serious reservations about classical economics as a discipline and practice. Lester Thurow, former dean of the\u00a0MIT Sloan School of Management has long been critical of the discipline. Robert Nelson likens it to a religion while Philip J. Kotler, widely viewed as the Father of Modern Marketing believes it should be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, a new trend is emerging that offers a positive direction for the discipline; one that applies economics from a human perspective. This more realistic approach, Behavioural Economics, incorporates human motivations and values. It argues that personal issues or cognitive biases guide economic activity, rather than assumptive factors about demand, equilibrium and trade functions.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Blawatt\u2019s research addresses the foregoing and moves the discussion even deeper into human behavior. In his new book, Marconomics, he argues that a new paradigm guides economic affairs. Based on <strong><u>empirical evidence<\/u><\/strong> it determines that an economy is guided by <strong><em>expectations<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>perceptions, <\/em><\/strong><u>not price and volume<\/u>, and is arranged in three tiers; an entrepreneurial economy, a managed economy and a mass marketing or declining economy.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will be followed by a Q+A session. Please RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:busevents@ufv.ca\">busevents@ufv.ca<\/a> by Friday, March 3, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, March 10, 2017,\u00a012:30\u20132 pm,\u00a0ABC 1427 The School of Business is pleased\u00a0to host\u00a0the second 2017 Research Seminar presented by\u00a0Dr. Ken R. Blawatt, UFV School of Business. Economics is now under some pressure to improve, if not change its premise. In the last few decades noteworthy economists, leading academics and business leaders worldwide, have expressed serious &#8230; <a title=\"Should We Abandon Classical Economics? Dr. Ken Blawatt Lecture on Marconomics\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/2017\/02\/22\/should-we-abandon-classical-economics-ufv-lecture-on-marconomics\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,13,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-area-finance","category-events","category-faculty","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}