Introducing a New Economics

Reardon, Jack; Cato, Molly Scott; Madi, Maria Alejandra Caporale

doi:10.2307/j.ctt1x07zbb

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“…As critics and authors of heterodox alternatives often note, mainstream economics textbooks are unusual in the social sciences (e.g. Komlos 2019;Söderbaum 2018;Reardon et al 2018;Earle et al 2017;Birks 2016;Madi and Reardon 2014;Zuidhof 2014). 6 Most social science textbooks set out a series of issue areas and emphasise that there are enduring disputes and competing theories and perspectives.…”

Section: An Economics Education and The Textbook Formatmentioning

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Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education

Gills¹,

Morgan²

2022

Economics and Climate Emergency

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In this paper we ask, what is mainstream economics education conveying to its students? Standard mainstream economics textbooks treat the environment as a specialist issue in addition to standard concerns and based on solutions that conform to those standard concerns. When viewed as socialisation for students this is a major problem. To illustrate the problems we set out key aspects of the standard format, and draw attention to the structure and contents from two well-known textbooks. Standard textbooks convey the impression that the 'environmental issue' is appropriately incorporated and exhibit two complacency-creating features. First, fundamental problems (acute global ecological breakdown, biodiversity loss, climate change crisis etc), issues and urgency cannot be adequately conveyed to students within this way of framing economics. Second, specific theory and policy solutions suggest that the problem is well in hand. We illustrate using the theory of negative externalities.

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Section: An Economics Education and The Textbook Formatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education

Gills¹,

Morgan²

2022

Economics and Climate Emergency

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“…Any number of scholars (indeed, far too many to even begin to catalog here) have identified deep regularities of human psychology (for the merest of sample, see Fishbein and Ajzen, 1975;Kahneman, 2011;and Greene, 2018 for a popularized overview). Regularities in the operations of social systems include the law of supply and demand regarding economic goods (Reardon et al, 2018), S-curve growth of innovations and their diffusion (Rogers, 1983) and the universal nature of conflict based on position in hierarchy (Dahrendorf, 1959) and about social conflict in general (Collins, 1975). However, unlike the fundamentally deterministic nature of laws governing physical and even biological systems, the "laws" of psychological and social systems are better seen as probabilistic: they forecast likelybut not certainactions and behaviors (Piirainen and Gonzalez, 2015).…”

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The ontological foundation for studying the future

Clardy

2020

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an ontological foundation for future studies, based in part on integrating some prior albeit incomplete work in this area. Design/methodology/approach This manuscript is based on a literature review, as well as on conceptual and theoretical enhancements from this subject field. Findings As the future does not exist (it is always something yet to come), the ontological foundations for studying the future must be based on the current reality of the physical, biological and social-psychological worlds of experience and ideas. From this basis, 10 postulates are provided that are based on that current reality and are applied to studying the future. Thus, by characterizing the current reality and how it is understood by people, meaningful statements about the future are possible. Practical implications For each ontological postulate, one or more implications for the study of the future are provided as guidelines for practice. Originality/value This manuscript integrates and builds on prior offerings about ontological concerns into a comprehensive framework that legitimates and focuses the practices of studying the future.

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Socio-Environmental-Economic Transformations Towards Sustainable Development

Staniškis

2022

World Sustainability Series

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Introducing a New Economics

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Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education

Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education

The ontological foundation for studying the future

Socio-Environmental-Economic Transformations Towards Sustainable Development

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