tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89211849681431584492024-03-14T11:27:57.869-07:00Rethinking Economics Blogto demystify, diversify, and invigorate economicsYuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15611580497485291481noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-73463464495813446312015-05-20T15:08:00.004-07:002015-05-20T15:08:49.562-07:00Book Review: David Simpson, The Rediscovery of Classical Economics
David Simpson, The Rediscovery of Classical Economics: Adaption, Complexity and Growth (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar , 2013), 215
pp. +vi.
In Simpson’s view, twentieth-century equilibrium economics has distorted the main mission of the profession—to understand the processes of change and complexity in economic life. Contemporary economic theory, Simpson contends,Dave Hochfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051009582746016406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-91839504417868051292015-05-17T09:29:00.002-07:002015-05-20T04:50:30.497-07:00Feminist Economists in the Greek Parliament, Part 1: Political Origins
In this blog series, Yuan Yang writes about her encounters with the Greek Parliament’s feminist economists. This week, she describes the political and academic origins of Antigone Lyberaki and Rania Antonopoulos.
When there are so few critical economists in politics–and so few women–it is emboldening to meet two feminist economists in one place: the Greek Parliament. Antigone Lyberaki Yuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15611580497485291481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-65178391402618730122015-04-20T13:21:00.000-07:002015-04-20T13:27:43.735-07:00Rethinking Economics at Biennale Democrazia in TurinWritten by Alberto Mola, Rethinking Economics Bocconi
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TURIN. On the 28th of March, Rethinking
Economics Italia took part in the organization of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-13513525292759110592015-03-15T12:06:00.000-07:002015-03-15T12:06:03.472-07:00Call for Blog Columnists & Editors
Rethinking Economics is looking for new blog columnists and editors! Apply by 28th March.
Rethinking Economics is a young network of students and citizens. We have come together to call for a better, pluralist, more diverse economics.
Our blog is an important way of talking to those around us, and so we are looking for a new, active group of writers and editors. Our blog fulfils Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-9412576153087981352014-12-14T09:17:00.001-08:002014-12-14T09:28:35.343-08:00University of Greenwich revises its economics programmes to enhance pluralism and real world economics
Received from Sara Gorgoni, University of Greenwich, Department of
International Business and Economics, Programme Leader
The 24th of November was an
important day for the economists at the University of Greenwich, when four
programmes in economics offered by the Department of International Business
and Economics - BSc (Hons) Economics, BSc (Hons) Economics with Banking,
BA (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-15733818525850839502014-11-29T05:04:00.000-08:002014-11-29T05:09:22.802-08:00Curriculum Reform at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey
A summary of the campaign to change the economics curriculum at Boğaziçi University
By Anil Askin and Serkant Adiguzel at the Boğaziçi
Political Economy Society (BPES) – www.ekop.org
In April 2013, BPES wrote a
petition to be shared with economics students (http://ekop.org/critique-of-curriculum-in-economics/).
Since BPES did not have any chance to spread the news through internal email, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-73966654748014245932014-11-21T03:33:00.000-08:002014-11-21T03:33:36.555-08:00Professor Steve Keen launches Rethinking Economics Kingston
Students at Kingston University kicked off a campaign for a new approach to economics with the successful launch of new society Rethinking Economics Kingston this week. Almost 100 people squeezed in to hear Professor Steve Keen – newly appointed head of the School of Economics, Politics and History – launch the new society with a speech on what’s wrong with mainstream economics and how studentsWillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11662180734940175496noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-23907249277152670122014-11-13T12:50:00.000-08:002014-11-13T12:50:10.687-08:00Book Review Series: A Menagerie of Speculative Follies
Review of The Pit and the Pendulum: A Menagerie of Speculative Follies, by David Harding & James W. Holmes (Winton Ed.)Reviewer: Vardhan Kapoor
The Pit and the Pendulum: A Menagerie of Speculative Follies is an ambitious work which covers 700 years of financial crises through the looking glass of waves of optimism and pessimism. The global financial crisis triggered an array of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-90244584989139218902014-10-27T11:44:00.002-07:002014-10-27T13:09:53.071-07:00Press Release: Rethinking Economics Position on CORE Curriculum
This month Rethinking Economics released a statement on its position on the new CORE curriculum being trialled at some institutions in the UK. Continue reading below for this statement, or visit the Rethinking Economics website to download a PDF copy.
London, UK- 16 October 2014 - The CORE Curriculum is not an answer to our
demands for reform. CORE is more engaging in its teaching jrichardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10232420389327789352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-757610369267282692014-08-05T16:24:00.000-07:002014-08-05T16:25:09.496-07:00Don't Rock the Ideological Boat (Too Much)
David Wells
In his opening keynote address at the
recently-concluded Rethinking Economics conference in London (June 28-29,
2014), Lord Adair Turner dismissed the need for changes to microeconomics by
referring to the beneficial use made of micro by two committees he chaired, the
Pensions Commission and the Low Pay Commission.
His
committees Dave Hochfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051009582746016406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-53649263868315525772014-07-17T20:21:00.001-07:002014-07-17T20:27:58.651-07:00Get Involved - Call for New Organisers
Want to join the Rethinking movement? We are looking for new organisers! Contact Yuan at rethinkeconomics.org to get involved :)
Newsletter Coordinator - Gather together news from around the RE network for our fortnightly letter. Let the world and our members know what is happening.
Secretary/Note-taker - Keep us all organised and up to date. Attend RE meetings and help us follow up on Yuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15611580497485291481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-90625889478727615052014-07-14T08:16:00.003-07:002014-07-14T08:22:16.131-07:00Meet the Rethinkers: Dimitri Stoelinga of Laterite, Development Economics Research
Dimitri (right) with his co-founder, Sachin
Yuan’s Interview with Dimitri Stoelinga of Laterite (Development Economics Research
- http://www.laterite-africa.com/), Kigali, Rwanda
“Economics is still in its early
stages of development. When you go into an economics course, you should go in
with a sense that this is a discipline that will change a lot in the next few
years. Be Yuanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15611580497485291481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-72050910320222350962014-05-20T00:57:00.000-07:002014-07-14T08:17:31.544-07:00Who are we?
We are most likely to be aged 18-34....
We are from London, Berlin, Oxford, Cambridge, Vienna, New Delhi, Lisbon, Manchester, São Paulo, Barcelona, New York, Paris, Copenhagen, Islamabad, Rome, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Santiago, Lahore, Belo Horizonte, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Washington, Bangkok, Brussels, Calcutta and many, many more!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-41111425825666851222014-05-11T08:52:00.000-07:002014-05-11T09:07:02.389-07:00The Economics of Information in the 21st Century: A Review of Jaron Lanier's Books
Author: Dave Hochfelder
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. New York: Vintage, 2010. 240 pp.
Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future? New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 416 pp.
The specter of technological unemployment has been haunting traditional economics since at least the Great Depression. Technological unemployment arises from increasing labor productivity Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-31469181856280192152014-05-10T14:48:00.001-07:002014-05-12T04:41:29.446-07:00When the Economist Does Bad PhilosophyAuthors: Erin Nash and Joe Seydl
In an article
in the New York Times in December
2011, Gregory Mankiw, Chair of Harvard University’s economics department,
asserts that “like most economists” he doesn’t “view the study of economics as
laden with ideology”.
However, his piece
last month in the New York Times entitled
“When the Scientist is also a Philosopher” indicates that there has Dave Hochfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051009582746016406noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-2613603558033230022014-05-06T14:11:00.002-07:002014-05-08T11:38:05.709-07:00Shimomuran Economics and the Rise of Japan and China
Author: George Tait Edwards
The BoJ Law of 1942 set out the major objective of the BoJ as assisting economic growth. During Japan’s Economic Miracle years (from about 1950 to 1975) the BoJ enabled Japanese economic growth by acting under Government control and creating no-cost investment credit (with a targeted effect of between 10% to 15% of GDP a year) with the objective of increasing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-43572034010857541442014-04-11T18:17:00.000-07:002014-04-11T18:22:39.839-07:00Rethinking Economics Italia - ManifestoModern economics is a discipline that confronts a stark contrast between its willingness to reform and the static reality it faces, endlessly stuck on its own problems.
Supporters of quantitative methods and supporters of qualitative methods often disagree about the role either plays in modern economics. While the former put forth a realist view of the world, the latter cry for normative Dave Hochfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051009582746016406noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-54377875776277816542014-04-10T09:40:00.003-07:002014-04-10T09:40:32.608-07:00Intellectual Darwinism and the fallacy of the marketplace of ideas
Author: Sam Wheldon-Bayes (Originally posted here)
I recently attended a panel discussion, organised by the University of Manchester’s Post-Crash Economics Society as a counterweight to the Royal Economic Society’s conference, between Victoria Chick and Diane Coyle on economic pluralism. The Q&A session became somewhat heated after one audience member suggested that the reason modern Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-71242320987310060732014-04-04T02:37:00.000-07:002014-04-04T02:37:22.786-07:00Book Review Series
Money, Blood and Revolution by George Cooper
Author: Isabelle Crosby
HOW DARWIN & THE
WORKINGS OF THE HUMAN HEART COULD FIX THE BROKEN SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS ONCE AND
FOR ALL.
Many authors
have written about the failure of economic theory but best-selling financial
author, George Cooper, seems to be the first to have come Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-56491222780252199502014-04-04T00:00:00.002-07:002014-04-17T04:29:02.343-07:00Motivations for Pluralism: Politics and Values in EconomicsThis document openly and explicitly states the motivations that bring together the RE organisers and RE groups, and address the underlying question of why we chose the aims that we have, and the direction for economic curriculum reform we have. We address the pertinent question: how political is our organising?
We are not a politically aligned network, but we hold political, philosophical Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-16350558868098098312014-04-04T00:00:00.001-07:002014-05-06T06:53:51.935-07:00Manifesto: A direction for the reform of economics education
This draft manifesto is intended as a statement to provide a unifying direction for those groups campaigning for economics curriculum reform in universities across the world. Please show your support by signing your name and organisation below.
This manifesto is based on the Manchester Post-Crash petition and the Rethinking Economics CORE feedback.
Signed:
Rafe Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-59178041331894499942014-04-04T00:00:00.000-07:002014-04-17T04:24:29.971-07:00Our aims, who we are, why we act
Our aims
Last updated through consensus at London Strategy Day, 2013/08/04
ACADEMIC: To bridge disciplines within and outside of economics; to advance neglected but critical economic perspectives and methodologies; to promote collaboration, humility and ethical practice in academia.
EDUCATIONAL: To demystify economics as a technical science, building open and collaborative communities ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-51069421430093246752014-03-12T05:55:00.003-07:002014-03-19T02:16:05.737-07:00Pluralism since the '1992 Plea' in the AER
Author: Neil Lancastle
In May 1992, a ‘Plea for a Pluralistic and Rigorous Economics’ was
published in the American Economic Review (Vol 82 No. 2). It was signed by Harcourt, Galbraith,
Goodwin, Kindelberger, Minsky, Pasinetti and other eminent economists. The Plea
was funded by FEED who launched a second ‘Plea’
in 2009 and support the 2012 ‘Manifesto for Economic
Sense’. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-32070453993276326732014-03-04T06:25:00.002-08:002014-04-07T00:12:23.386-07:00Update on ‘RE in the City’ Project
Author: Zoe Lindesay
Roughly six months after taking on the role of Project Co-ordinator for ‘Rethinking Economics in the City,’ I thought this was a good time to provide an update on our progress.
‘RE in the City’ was a project
initiated in August 2013 to help engage professionals in the debate about
pluralism in economics, initially using LinkedIn as a platform. LinkedIn is the
leading Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921184968143158449.post-50581900328204467832014-03-01T02:06:00.003-08:002014-05-04T05:41:43.345-07:00Portcullis House Press Release
Rethinking Economics, the Manchester Post-Crash Economics Society and the Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism (CSEP) met with MPs and economists at Portcullis House on Weds 5th February.
Rafe Martyn (CSEP), Maeve Cohen (Post-Crash) and Yuan Yang (Rethinking Economics) spoke about the history of the groups, the problem with a narrow focus on neoclassical economics, our position on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0