Showing posts with label Association for Heterodox Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Association for Heterodox Economics. Show all posts
13 July 2013

Knowledge, Power and the Research Excellence Framework

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Far beyond the arcane reaches of the Basel capital requirements, touched on in my last post, lies the swampy territory of the Research Exc...
23 March 2013

Why I am Not a Communist

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Hell, I am not even a socialist and have never claimed to be. As a Green it is my firm opinion that we are part of a new ideology and one th...
9 March 2012

Economics in University: Teaching or Propaganda?

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In spite of the utter failure of academic and professional economists to predict, explain or find solutions to the financial and economic cr...
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5 December 2011

Creating New Economists

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I had a very interesting experience over the weekend while attending university open days. I was enquiring from a young woman encouraging pe...
3 November 2011

Economics Students on the Move

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How our economy will be organised in the future relies heavily on how our future economists understand the world and its workings, as well a...
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12 July 2011

Elite Syncopations

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For those not familiar with the working of universities this post may seem rather obscure, but in reality it explains one crucial mechanism ...
7 March 2011

Dissident Economists on the Warpath

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As an academic economist I find I am living in interesting times. Yes, really. The profession is in crisis, and much blame is being laid at ...
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29 May 2010

Anti-Textbooks, not Anti-Economics

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For those who teach economics life can feel fairly limited. The most popular textbook in the Anglo-American world is Principles of Economics...
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14 July 2009

Russian Orthodox Economist Runs Amok

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I spent the weekend at a proper economics conference, one where people had different views which they discussed heatedly over coffee, where ...