Many things disturbed me about the movie “Inside Job” but dishonesty amongst the economists interviewed was not one of them. Everyone spoke from within a consistent and generally mainstream position. Economists may differ, but it is seldom in my experience that we do not get an honest personal assessment, and I say this even about people I profoundly disagree with. My edited collection on Macroeconomic Theory and its Failings contains the views of economists from every major non-mainstream tradition. We all differ over matters of theory and policy but I doubt many of us disguise our true beliefs in what we write. If there is a problem in economics, it is not an ethical problem, it is a problem related to the nature of those economic theories themselves. Dr Steven Kates School of Economics, Finance and Marketing RMIT University Level 12 / 239 Bourke Street Melbourne Vic 3000 Phone: (03) 9925 5878 Mobile: 042 7297 529