Teaching Economics the Pluralist Way: no more airbrushed economics from any school
Steve Keen
December 31, 2016
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This is a speech I gave to the Amsterdam Rethinking Economics students when they launched their survey on the state of economics teaching in The Netherlands, laving out key principles for teaching economics the pluralist way: 1 Teach Honestly: Give a “Warts and All” treatment of every school 2 Read the original sources—journals & books—not ...
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This is a speech I gave to the Amsterdam Rethinking Economics students when they launched their survey on the state of economics teaching in The Netherlands, laving out key principles for teaching economics the pluralist way:
1 Teach Honestly: Give a “Warts and All” treatment of every school
2 Read the original sources—journals & books—not textbooks
3 Let experts teach maths & computing, not economists
4 Facts exist & are not theory-neutral
4.1 Rules of accounting versus Money Multiplier
4.2 Great Depression Soup Kitchens versus RBC “voluntary unemployment” myths
4.3 Decline of Soviet Union versus Marxist faith in socialism
5 Learn Economic History & History of Economics
6 Learn modern “complex systems” approach to dynamics from mathematicians (see www.ChaosBook.org)
7 Learn computing & multi-agent modelling from computer scientists
8 Look at the “Cliodynamics” approach to history
9 Arguably doing what economists should always have be doing
10 Use the Web for academic freedom where Universities suppress it |
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