Global Financial Crisis 2007:Global Financial Crisis & Resulting Critiques: Many people have said that the current global financial crises reveals the bankruptcy of conventional economic theory, which was unable to anticipate this event -- and in fact, theories of rational behavior suggested that this could not happen.
Islamic Critiques:Critiques based on Islamic point of view and related research projects:
Stiglitz Critiques: Stiglitz on East Asian Crisis. A critique of Stiglitz, who fails to see economic theory as responsible
UNFAIR TRADE: Critique by OXFAM of current trading regimes which are heavily biased against the poor.
Stephen Marglin: Why Economists are the Problem.
Some Newspaper Critiques -- Op-Eds in New York Times:
The Return of History, by David Brooks -- A forecast that Economic Theory will be revolutionized.
Flaw in Free Markets: Humans, by Robert H. Frank.
TEN BOOK recommended by Ralph Nader, exposing deep and systematic flaws of capitalism
DEIFICATION OF SCIENCE: Treatment of Economics as Set of natural laws
This shows the creation of Flat Earth Myth as part of process of deification of science:
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/topics/history/1997Russell.html
Links to Alternative Schools of Thought:
George Soros Funds Alternative Modes: Inet-Economics.
Special issue of On the Horizon, devoted to heterodox economics.