 International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education (IJPEE) ISSN (Online): 1757-5656 - ISSN (Print): 1757-5648
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Pluralism is rapidly gaining currency among economists. Edward Fullbrook’s A Guide to What’s Wrong With Economics (Anthem 2004) dissects the weakness of traditional economics while advocating pluralism. John Groenewegen’s Teaching Pluralism in Economics (Edward Elgar 2007) exhorts that universities must incorporate pluralism and connect to other social sciences. Mark Maier and Julie Nelson’s Introducing Economics: A Critical Guide for Teaching (M.E. Sharpe 2007) provides numerous suggestions for making economics relevant to high school students within a pluralist framework, while Jack Reardon’s A Handbook for Pluralist Economics Education (Routledge, 2008) offers a hands-on approach for incorporating pluralism into the classroom, as well as offering suggestions, guidelines and representative syllabi.
Key elements of pluralism include respect for diversity and alternative views, toleration, willingness to learn, curiosity and friendliness – all necessary to enable students to forge solutions to today’s complex problems. The increased demand for pluralism was cogently stated in a petition by French University students:
Of all the approaches to economic questions that exist, generally only one is presented to us. This approach is supposed to explain everything by means of a purely axiomatic process, as if this were the economic truth. We do not accept this dogmatism. We want a pluralism of approaches, adapted to the complexity of the objects and to the uncertainty surrounding most of the big questions in economics.
IJPEE will facilitate communication and serve as a forum for the development of pluralism and its implementation into the classroom.
Objectives
The objectives of IJPEE are:
- to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas thereby fostering communication within the growing pluralist community;
- to advance the techniques and concepts of pluralist economics by providing practical suggestions to incorporate pluralism into the classroom;
- to offer teachers and educators interested in pluralism an outlet for their research; and
- to change the emphasis of economic education by making pluralism a central feature.
Readership
We expect an international audience, not just in Europe and North America but also in Central America, Asia and the former Soviet Union. Pluralism is vital for solving our pressing economic and ecological problems, in developed and developing countries. Contents
Issue will contain solicited articles and a book review section. In addition, two sections, “Notes, Communications and Dialogue" and “Pedagogical Techniques", will be included to foster communication and implement pluralist techniques. Each issue will contain articles of interest to all pluralist economists, as well as more specialized articles devoted to teaching pluralism in the classroom, book reviews and the notes section. IJPEE will also publish special issues devoted to solving current problems from a pluralist perspective. Subject Coverage
The subject matter will cover all branches of economics, with the objective of enhancing economic education in order to solve today’s pressing economic and ecological problems. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
- Defining pluralism
- What is pluralism and how can we incorporate it into the classroom
- The rhetoric of pluralism: communicating within and across disciplines
- Teaching the theory of the firm from a pluralist perspective
- Teaching pluralism in developing countries
- What can pluralists learn from Adam Smith and other classical economists?
- Incorporating pluralism into online courses
- Using pluralism to construct a framework for solving global problems
- Are there limits to extending pluralism?
- Pluralism and the individual
- Pluralism as a central component of honours courses
- Pluralism at the community college
- Encouraging pluralism at the high school level
- Necessary mathematics for pluralism
- Reaching out to other social sciences
- Teaching ecology from a pluralist perspective
- Understanding the financial crisis from a pluralist perspective
- Pluralism and system dynamics
Specific Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may
only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has
been completely re-written).
All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Submission of
Papers web-page.
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Dr. Jack Reardon
Please include in your submission the title of the Journal Editors and Members of the Editorial Board
Editor in Chief Jack Reardon Hamline University Department of Management and Economics School of Business 1536 Hewitt Avenue MS-A1740 St. Paul, MN 55104 USA jreardon02@hamline.edu
Advisory Board Pritam Singh Oxford Brookes University UK Editorial Board Members Gar AlperovitzGa University of Maryland USA Parvez AzimPa GC University PAKISTAN Sudipta BhattacharyyaSu Viova-Bharati University INDIA Judy BrownJu Victoria University of Wellington NEW ZEALAND Valentin CojanuVa Bucharest University of Economics ROMANIA John DavisJo Marquette University USA Alex De RuyterAl University of Birmingham UK Andy DenisAn City University London UK Marie DohnalováMa Charles University CZECH REPUBLIC Sheila DowSh University of Stirling UK Susan FeinerSu University of Southern Maine USA Deborah M. FigartDe The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey USA Alan FreemanAl University of Greenwich USA Rob GarnettRo Texas Christian University USA John GroenewegenJo Delft University of Technology NETHERLANDS Bernard GuerrienBe University Paris 1 the Pantheon-Sorbonne FRANCE Arturo HermannAr Institute for Studies and Economic Analyses ITALY Steve KeenSt University of Western Sydney AUSTRALIA Miriam KennetMi Green Economics Institute UK Marc LavoieMa University of Ottawa CANADA Frederick LeeFr University of Missouri- Kansas City USA Maria Alejandra Caporale MadiMa State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) BRAZIL Sean MallinSe University of Notre Dame USA Deirdre McCloskeyDe University of Illinois at Chicago USA Terrence McDonoughTe National University of Ireland, Galway IRELAND Andrew MearmanAn University of the West of England UK Iona NegruIo Anglia Ruskin University UK Julie NelsonJu Tufts University USA Phillip O'HaraPh Curtin University of Technology AUSTRALIA Huseyin OzelHu Hacettepe University TURKEY Janice PetersonJa California State University-Fresno USA Asta PundzieneAs ISM University of Management LITHUANIA Bronwen ReesBr Anglia Ruskin University UK Mauro ReyesMa COLOMBIA Gustavo Vargas SanchezGu Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico MEXICO Shirish SangleSh National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) INDIA Julian SchusterJu Hamline University USA Peter SoderbaumPe Malardalen University SWEDEN Omar SougouOm Gaston Berger University SENEGAL Martha StarrMa American University USA Diana StrassmannDi Rice University USA Erika SumiloEr University of Latvia LATVIA Yanis VaroufakisYa University of Athens GREECE Tonia WarneckeTo Rollins College USA Lu WeiLu University of Science and Technology of China P.R. CHINA David WheatDa University of Bergen NORWAY Haiyun ZhaoHa Central University for Nationalities P.R. CHINA Steve ZiliakSt Roosevelt University USA
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