What are the most effective strategies for advancing economic pluralism?
Tim Thornton’s ‘From Economics to Political Economy: The Promise, Problems and Solutions of Pluralist Economics’, published by Routledge in 2006, is seeking to gain a better understanding of student...
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Rethinking weighs in on Student Debt and ‘Post-Capitalism’
This week organisers took the opportunity to spread the word of pluralist economics curriculum reform to new audiences in Leeds and London. Last week, the Centre for Culture and the Arts at Leeds...
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Deficit Phobia and the Need for Greater Understanding of Private Debt
Chancellor George Osborne speaks during the debate on the ‘fiscal charter’, OCtober 2015. Image via Guardian/PA...
View ArticleRethinking Economics merges with campaign group Post-Crash Economics Manchester
We are excited to announce that we have recently finalised our merger with Post-Crash Economics Manchester, a local student group campaigning for pluralist economics, which rose to prominence as a...
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Kilkenomics: Let’s Get Fiscal
Left to Right: George Cooper, Megan Greene, Bill Black, Mike Driver, Gillian Tett and Colm O’Regan By Ben Murray, Senior Editor at Economy Comedy and economics may not seem like natural bedfellows....
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Edale 2015: UK campaigners strategise and skillshare in Peak District...
Among the sunny, snowy hills of Derbyshire, RE organisers from across the country met to discuss their shared vision for a reformed economics curriculum as well as improved public engagement with...
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Schools workshop continues to reach new young people
When do 17 year olds get the opportunity to learn about inequality and behavioral economics? When do they get a chance to think critically about their own curriculum and discuss what is missing? Do...
View ArticleTaking on the Fakeconomists: A Review of John Weeks’‘Economics of the 1%’
Weeks, John F. 2014. Economics of the 1%: How Mainstream Economics Serves the Rich, Obscures Reality and Distorts Policy. Anthem Reviewed by Isaac Stovell, University of Sheffield Mainstream economics,...
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Regular headlines reflect growing demand for ‘broader perspectives’ in economics
On Friday 5th February those associated with the Rethinking Economics network had a very excitable day. Even as we were preparing our first formal, nationally coordinated campaign for curriculum reform...
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Danish Collaboration on Rethinking Economics Initiated
Written by Mads Stolberg-Larsen The two Danish groups “Kritiske Politter” (Directly translated “Critical Students of Economics” with shorthand KP) and “Det Samfundsøkonomiske Selskab” (Directly...
View ArticlePaper of the Month: Bubbles, Crashes and History Lessons
By Yuan Yang, Rethinking Economics Happy Year of the Monkey! There is a fable concerning monkeys and learning: that the impatient monkey picks peaches with one hand and holds them with his other arm;...
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New Bank of England graduate programme highlights gaps in university...
The graduate programme, announced 12th February in the Financial Times, aims to provide a real world understanding on contemporary monetary theory, with ‘a bit less modelling and a few more war...
View ArticleRethinking Economics attends Transforming Finance Summit
How can finance be transformed to make it more inclusive? More democratic? Making it serve the needs of the wider public again? And how should civil society respond to the next financial crisis? These...
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Regular headlines reflect growing demand for ‘broader perspectives’ in economics
On Friday 5th February those associated with the Rethinking Economics network had a very excitable day. Even as we were preparing our first formal, nationally coordinated campaign for curriculum reform...
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Danish Collaboration on Rethinking Economics Initiated
Written by Mads Stolberg-Larsen The two Danish groups “Kritiske Politter” (Directly translated “Critical Students of Economics” with shorthand KP) and “Det Samfundsøkonomiske Selskab” (Directly...
View ArticlePaper of the Month: Bubbles, Crashes and History Lessons
By Yuan Yang, Rethinking Economics Happy Year of the Monkey! There is a fable concerning monkeys and learning: that the impatient monkey picks peaches with one hand and holds them with his other arm;...
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BBC World Service documentary asks ‘Are economics degrees fit for purpose?’
On 5th February, the concerns of students worldwide at their state of the economics education once again reached a global audience, through a half-hour Peter Day radio documentary and accompanying...
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‘Rethinking Roadshows’ take place in Liverpool and St Andrews
At the request of economics students keen to learn more about implementing pluralism at their own universities, Rethinkers travelled to two new universities to deliver workshops in Feminist, Ecological...
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A Review of Flassbeck & Lapavitsas’‘Against the Troika’
Flassbeck, Heiner and Lapavitsas, Costas. 2015. Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone. Verso. Reviewed by Stavros Pantos, University of Edinburgh The publisher’s tagline for this...
View ArticleRethinking Economics is Looking for Blog Contributors!
Are you a student, or a recent graduate, with an interest in the movement to rethink economics? Are you a PhD student or early-career academic looking for space to talk about heterodox and pluralist...
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