Teaching Economics the Pluralist Way: no more airbrushed economics from any school

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