Reflections on pluralism in economics
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Ioana Negru | Pluralism is one of the most problematic concepts in the social sciences. Despite a bourgeoning debate on the nature of pluralism and its relevance for economics, consideration of pluralism within economics has a short history. This paper i... | 7 - 21 |
A human agency approach to the economics of international trade
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Fu-Lai Tony Yu | Scholars in Austrian economics have amply criticised many aspects of neoclassical economics including methodology, development economics, monetary theory, public finance and comparative economic systems. Surprisingly, little has been said o... | 22 - 36 |
Democracy, education and economics
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Zohreh Emami, John Davis | This paper examines the connections between democracy and education, particularly as it concerns economics. We adopt a pluralist proceduralist view of democracy, and argue that this requires a view of individuals as active decision-makers a... | 37 - 45 |
Where the customers are always wrong: some thoughts on the societal impact of a non-pluralist economic education
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Yanis Varoufakis | Economics, like any other scientific pursuit, ought to be educational. However, two observations cast doubt on whether it is. First, we find that students of economics seem to become less civilised the more they surrender to their disciplin... | 46 - 57 |
Against rigid boundaries in social science
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Tim Engartner | Methods, volumes and aims of social science education still remain remarkably consistent from one German university to another. If the social sciences, especially economics, are to gain greater social relevance and acceptance, researchers m... | 58 - 64 |
Empowering students to compare ways economists think: the case of the housing bubble
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | I. David Wheat | Students are expected to think critically about economic processes but not about the way economists explain those processes. They are generally powerless to do the latter. This paper illustrates a causal mapping technique to enable students... | 65 - 86 |
Teaching alternative approaches to the firm
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Sean Mallin | The purpose of this paper is to describe our pluralist course |Alternative approaches to the firm|. The first section will discuss the myriad conceptualisations of the firm and contrast this with the staid conception of mainstream economics... | 87 - 92 |
Teaching globalisation from a feminist pluralist perspective
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Tonia Warnecke | Pluralist teaching encourages students to develop critical thinking skills to their fullest potential. This article presents guidelines for a globalisation course taught from a feminist pluralist perspective by the author during the fall of... | 93 - 107 |
Haiku economics: little teaching aids for big economic pluralists
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Stephen T. Ziliak | Haiku is a distinguished (if short) form of poetry with roots dating back to 17th century Japan. Poets understand that haiku is the most efficient form of economic speech. But technical efficiency is not the only or even the main goal of wr... | 108 - 129 |
Macroeconomics, endogenous money and the contemporary financial crisis: a teaching model
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Giuseppe Fontana, Mark Setterfield | This paper develops an undergraduate macroeconomics teaching model that features endogenous money and an explicit account of commercial bank behaviour. It therefore transcends common shortcomings of existing teaching models based on either ... | 130 - 147 |
Should economics educators care about students| academic freedom?
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Robert F. Garnett, Michael R. Butler | Is it the duty of economics educators to help their students achieve a threshold level of intellectual independence? Should the learning goals of the undergraduate economics major include the ability to think for oneself – to reach re... | 148 - 160 |
Economics education from scratch: a view from post-communist Romania
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Valentin Cojanu, Mariana Nicolae, Mircea Maniu | Two decades elapsed since economics had to replace Marxist political economy and be taught from scratch. This paper gives an account of the consequences and implications of this process in career advancement, research output, and teaching e... | 161 - 173 |
Educating students for the social economy: notes from the Czech Republic
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028961 | Marie Dohnalova | Social economy and social enterprises offer alternative or complementary approaches to addressing social, economic and environmental problems, contributing to economic, social and cultural advancement. The purpose of this article is to fost... | 174 - 178 |
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