ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines some mismatch between the quite good availability of alternative, paradigm-comparing and pluralist textbooks and missing teaching forms and course experience to apply those contents. A comprehensive transformation of economics towards a pluralist and thus, overall, more critical and more problem-solving science will not come by itself, but has to be actively promoted and constructed. In fact, fragmented diversity should be understood as the expression of a rather early phase of the development of a pluralist economic discipline. With economic, political, social, and ecological crisis symptoms that have accompanied the process of capitalist globalization, economics faces the decision of whether to ignore or at least let linger on the multiple crises, or to become a seriously problem-solving force. The structures of the economic model of the past and present are deteriorating.
