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Toxic Textbooks: Part I – Mankiw’s Neo-Platonism is anti-science
from Edward Fullbrook Thanks to Harvard students, Greg Mankiw’s approach to teaching economics was international news last week and continues to be so today. A couple of years ago I contributed a...
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Toxic Textbooks: Part II – Mankiw’s use of emotionality and bullying
from Edward Fullbrook Yesterday I posted Part I – Mankiw’s Neo-Platonism is anti-science Part II – Mankiw’s use of emotionality and bullying A major device which Mankiw and other textbook writers use...
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Toxic Textbooks: Part III – Newton, Mankiw and Einstein
from Edward Fullbrook Part I – Mankiw’s Neo-Platonism is anti-science Part II – Mankiw’s use of emotionality and bullying Part III – Newton, Mankiw and Einstein If economics textbook authors placed...
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Part IV: Eleven ways to think like a post-crash economist
from Edward Fullbrook Part I – Mankiw’s Neo-Platonism is anti-science Part II – Mankiw’s use of emotionality and bullying Part III – Newton, Mankiw and Einstein Eleven ways to think like a post-crash...
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“This is why we are Anti-Mankiw”
The following is from Harvard students’ http://anti-mankiw.blogspot.com Students at Harvard University on Tuesday, November 1st walked out of Professor N. Gregory Mankiw’s Ec 10, “Principles of...
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Why Frank Smets, chief economist of the ECB, thinks the ECB economic model is...
from Merijn Knibbe Have you ever wondered why an U-3 unemployment rate of 23% in Spain (and rising) and 18% in Greece (and rising) doesn’t seem to bother the European Central Bank (ECB)? I have. And it...
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Occupy Harvard and beyond
from David Ruccio Issue #2 of The Occupy Harvard Crimson is now out. The issue includes a variety of short essays about the occupation, including a piece by Wayne M. Langley, of SEIU Local 615, on...
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Occupy market failure
from David Ruccio With all due respect to Mark Thoma, the introduction of market failures does not mean the teaching of principles of economics is not a problem.* It’s the least mainstream economists...
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Student loans: the new bubble? (chart)
from Merijn Knibbe At this moment I’m using the work of Reinhart and Rogoff, “This time is different. Eight centuries of financial folly”. 1. To avoid a common misunderstanding: this book is not just...
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The triumph of the death of methodology and the history of economic thought
from David Ruccio Just this past semester, students in one of my classes wanted to know why they hadn’t been taught anything about economic methodology or the history of economic thought in any of the...
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Michigan State students campaign for diversification
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY GENERAL ASSEMBLY FORTY-NINTH SESSION G.A. 49-72 INTRODUCED BY: Nikolovksi SECONDED BY: Goheen A BILL TO: ADVOCATE FOR THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE...
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WEA online conference: The economics curriculum: towards a radical reformation
The economics curriculum: towards a radical reformation 3d May – 31st May - a World Economics Association Conference - with Open Discussion Forum –...
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Students rethinking economics
Students at the London School of Economics have organized for this coming a weekend a rather large 3-day conference on Rethinking Economics. I am posting below the conference agenda, not with the...
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“it really isn’t education at all, but proselytization”
This is a new post from Jack Reardon on the WEA Pedagogy Blog It is a great privilege and a pleasure to be one of three editors of this pedagogy blog. Reforming economics education is my life’s work...
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Undergraduates at Manchester University propose overhaul of orthodox...
from today’s Guardian Economics students aim to tear up free-market syllabus The Post-Crash Economics Society at Manchester University. Photograph: Jon Super for the Guardian Few mainstream economists...
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Economics after the crash
from David Ruccio Last week in class, after explaining to students that graduate students in economics no longer study either the history of economic thought or economic history, they asked me if I...
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Economics students revolt against being force-fed with neoclassical mumbo jumbo
from Lars Syll The world has changed, the syllabus hasn’t – is it time to do something about it? Rethinking Economics is a network of young economics students, thinkers and writers who are organising...
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Occupy Economics
from Peter Radford Forgive me for my exasperation. There are too many disparate efforts to rethink economics, conferences on this, and papers on that. I admire each and every one. I support whole...
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We need economic theories fit for the real world
from The Guardian The Post-Crash Economics Society at Manchester University. Photograph: Jon Super for the Guardian The Association for Heterodox Economics welcomes student initiatives for fundamental...
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Teaching economics. “New Developments In Economic Education”
from Maria Alejandra Madi and the WEA Pedagogy Blog In 2001 French economics students petitioned their professors for a more realistic and pluralist teaching of economics. Since then, several books...
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