They think it’s all over
Our main political parties see a reputation for economic competence as key for achieving power. The Tory party is reportedly scared that a Brexit disaster will destroy its reputation, which …
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Disruptive influences
“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 …
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Heterodox economics: having a laugh
What is the pedagogical role of performance? Can improvisation inspire? And should silliness support learning about sustainability? Gill Seyfang thinks so, and she’d like to tell you why. Teaching complex …
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Economic Growth: Our modern day religion?
For around half a century ecological economists such as Herman Daly have been seeking to win over the economics profession to the recognition that the economy is a subsystem of …
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What Economic Reform should have looked liked
The turn to economic liberalisation from the 1970s on used ideas from the academy to address the problems of over-regulation and economic policy making by deal doing. But once underway, …
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Reigning Men
Teresa 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. …
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Kids today
As 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 …
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Economics: No More Experts Anymore?
A special public panel discussion with John Kay, Ann Pettifor, Angus Armstrong and Josh Ryan-Collins, chaired by Alan Penn, Dean of the Bartlett, UCL. Part of our 10 years after …
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Challenging “Nudge Economics”: Reframing the market as a community of advantage
‘Nudge economics’ has created a lot of interest and had a lot of influence most recently with a Nobel prize for Richard Thaler. Prof Robert Sugden, an eminent behavioural economist …
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Shut Down the Business School
Business 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 …
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