Thinking less economically
“You can tell she’s really a geography teacher – She’s marked down my graph for looking like the Cotswolds instead of the Dolomites!” With a shortage of economists willing to …
Thinking less economically Read MorePublished by Promoting Economic Pluralism
“You can tell she’s really a geography teacher – She’s marked down my graph for looking like the Cotswolds instead of the Dolomites!” With a shortage of economists willing to …
Thinking less economically Read MoreIn the coolly analytical world of economics, how do you quantify patriotic fervor? For the man who launched the careers of generations of young Russian economists, it’s become a theoretical …
Putin Makes Economics Lessons a Loyalty Test for Young Russians Read MorePrivatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. These were claimed to provide more efficient services so we …
The Foundational Economy Read More“We input pluralist economics perspectives and now it is designing a space craft to leave earth.” Teaching isn’t what is used to be. Exams need to be the same. Nigella Vigoroso-Heck …
Disruptive influences Read MoreThe Mint talked to Professor Ozlem Onaran about her journey from an undergraduate degree in engineering to being a professor in economics at Greenwich University. She started her career in …
The hard way Read MoreTeresa Linzner spoke to people and ran a survey to look into why so few economists were women. There is no reason other than most of them are men. Quick. …
Reigning Men Read MoreAs the latest cohort of the Network Generation leave school, shirts daubed with fond farewells, Nigella Vigoroso-Heck ponders their futures. There’s a lot of stress before the start of school …
Kids today Read MoreBusiness schools are institutions which, a decade after the financial crash, continue to act as loudspeakers for neoliberal capitalism with all its injustices and planetary consequences. Little seems to …
Shut Down the Business School Read MoreNigella Vigoroso-Heck is inclined to avoid bias. Our students will probably leave school with an economic mindset that reflects the biases of their teachers. I haven’t always worked at the …
The leaning in learning Read MoreSteve Payson, an US economics practictioner of long standing, talks about his book ‘How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing us’ which provides an eye-opening expose on economics professors that will …
How Economics Professors can stop failing us – Steven Payson Read More