Some links:
- The Post-crash Economics Society
- Economics students aim to tear up free-market syllabus, by Phillip Inman, in the Guardian, 24 October 2013.
- Letters: Reconnecting economics and real life, in the Guardian, 25 October 2013.
- Economics students need to be taught more than neoclassical theory, by Zach Ward-Perkins and Joe Earle, in the Guardian, 28 October 2013.
- Mainstream economics is in denial: the world has changed, by Aditya Chakraborthy, in the Guardian, 28 October 2013.
- Economics lecturers accused of clinging to pre-crash fallacies, by Phillip Inman, in the Guardian, 10 November 2013.
- Teaching evidence-based economics, by Michael Joffe, in the Royal Economic Society Newsletter, October 2013.
- University economics teaching to be overhauled, by Phillip Inman, in the Guardian, 11 November 2013.
- Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism (CSEP)
- Letter to the editor from the Post Keynesian Study Group, 18 November 2013.
- Leter to the editor from the Association for Heterodox Economics, 21 November 2013.
- Keynes's new heirs: Britain leads a global push to rethink the way economics is taught, in the Economist, 23 November 2013.
By the way, Ian Steedman, a leading Sraffian economist, was at the University of Manchester not too long ago. And, I believe, he did supervise a number of doctorate theses from students at Manchester. So the closing of the doors to form the current monoculture happened only over the last decade, I guess.
Update: Originally posted on 6 November 2013. Updated on 12 November 2013 to include more links.
Update: Updated on 2 December 2013 to include more links.
Robert
ReplyDeleteI have taken the liberty of appending your list of related events to the restlessness of students at Manchester on my "Adam Smith's Lost Legacy Blog: at www.adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.co.uk
I hope you do not mind.
I have also recommended that readers click through to Thoughts on Economics regularly. Congratulations too.
Gavin