ABSTRACT
Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majority have voted with their feet and signed up for
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part |2 pages
Part II
chapter |8 pages
Teaching economics through controversies
École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France)
chapter |4 pages
Toward a post-autistic economics education
The Hawke Institute, University of South Australia)
chapter |4 pages
What we learned in the twentieth century
(Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, USA)
chapter |5 pages
Rethinking economics in twentieth-century America
A political–economic approach to the history of thought (University of California, San Diego,
chapter |5 pages
Against: a priori theory. For: descriptively adequate computational modeling
Metropolitan University Business School, UK)
chapter |3 pages
An alternative framework for economics
(University of New England, Australia) (University of Queensland, Australia)
chapter |4 pages
The tight links between post-Keynesian and feminist economics
(University of Ottawa, Canada)
chapter |5 pages
Is the utility maximization principle necessary?
(Department of Atomic Physics, Roland Eotvos University, Hungary)
chapter |4 pages
Quo vadis behavioral finance?
(Louisiana State University, USA) (Bucknell University, USA)