Revise the University of Manchester's Economic Syllabus
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Subhasish Dey
12 years ago
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Being 3rd year phd student in economics department of the university of Manchester and also as a graduate tutor I fully agree with view put forward this group. this department is highly mainstream and they dont encourage any heterodox thought.
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David Wells
12 years ago
Keep up the good work - desperately needed.
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malcolm whitmore
12 years ago
Great to hear of the recognition that our financial systemis taking us to disaster by brainwashing the new boys
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Matt
12 years ago
I am not from Manchester but from Warwick. I hope I can still sign (and would forward the petition within my group if wanted).
Matt Watson's comment (http://politicsatwarwick.net/2013/11/05/challenging-the-economics-curriculum-the-quiet-revolution-in-community-education/) made me aware of your existence. As you can see, IPE scholars teach and write about the diverse picture.
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Chris Hodgson
12 years ago
This is a hugely important issue with increasingly international implications.
I studied Economics at A level in my teens before a Humanities degree but would advise anyone against studying the subject at the moment as it is trapped in a 'Flat Earth' moment and in need of drastic reform
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robin paulson
12 years ago
I have been studying qualitative economics for some years, through the lense of sociology, and am endlessly frustrated by the insanity of neoliberalism and its dominance in the press, universities, politics and every day life. With a group of friends we have started a free university in Auckland, New Zealand, and are studying various topics, including how to rectify this: http://universitywithoutconditions.ac.nz/
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Jim Fearnley
12 years ago
It is late in the day, but still welcome, to be able to witness the imperial disrobing of bourgeois economics. This form of 'positive voyyeurism' is lent greater piquancy by the fact if it being supported by the marketisation of academe. We also need to beware a potentially spurious legitimisation of market economics represented by the application of apparently ineluctable, 'natural' scientific theories such as probability arguments to the incidence of economic crises.
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Georg Hubmann
12 years ago
For a better understanding of society and economics.
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Philip Duval
12 years ago
No more fairy tales please. Let's have economics grounded in reality.
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Jokūbas Sąlyga
12 years ago
My full support to your initiative
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Rolf Räcker
12 years ago
..economics must become understanding-centric-economics
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Iain Climie
12 years ago
I studied economics as part of a Maths-based degree almost 40 years ago. Even then, it seemed obvious that its inability to cope with "havign enough" would lead to disaster. See also an old filem "The Man in the White Suit" to see what I mean.
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Lukas
12 years ago
check out the german movement for a new economics curriculum at www.plurale-oekonomik.de
Being 3rd year phd student in economics department of the university of Manchester and also as a graduate tutor I fully agree with view put forward this group. this department is highly mainstream and they dont encourage any heterodox thought.
Keep up the good work - desperately needed.
Great to hear of the recognition that our financial systemis taking us to disaster by brainwashing the new boys
I am not from Manchester but from Warwick. I hope I can still sign (and would forward the petition within my group if wanted). Matt Watson's comment (http://politicsatwarwick.net/2013/11/05/challenging-the-economics-curriculum-the-quiet-revolution-in-community-education/) made me aware of your existence. As you can see, IPE scholars teach and write about the diverse picture.
This is a hugely important issue with increasingly international implications. I studied Economics at A level in my teens before a Humanities degree but would advise anyone against studying the subject at the moment as it is trapped in a 'Flat Earth' moment and in need of drastic reform
I have been studying qualitative economics for some years, through the lense of sociology, and am endlessly frustrated by the insanity of neoliberalism and its dominance in the press, universities, politics and every day life. With a group of friends we have started a free university in Auckland, New Zealand, and are studying various topics, including how to rectify this: http://universitywithoutconditions.ac.nz/
It is late in the day, but still welcome, to be able to witness the imperial disrobing of bourgeois economics. This form of 'positive voyyeurism' is lent greater piquancy by the fact if it being supported by the marketisation of academe. We also need to beware a potentially spurious legitimisation of market economics represented by the application of apparently ineluctable, 'natural' scientific theories such as probability arguments to the incidence of economic crises.
For a better understanding of society and economics.
No more fairy tales please. Let's have economics grounded in reality.
My full support to your initiative
..economics must become understanding-centric-economics
I studied economics as part of a Maths-based degree almost 40 years ago. Even then, it seemed obvious that its inability to cope with "havign enough" would lead to disaster. See also an old filem "The Man in the White Suit" to see what I mean.
check out the german movement for a new economics curriculum at www.plurale-oekonomik.de