Editorial: Pluralism in Economics Education

Editorial: Pluralism in Economics Education

This Editorial introduces the special issue of IREE on pluralism in economics education. It draws out the pedagogical consequences of the contradiction between the plurality of the discipline and the singularity of student induction into it. Economics education should instead be based on controversy, benefiting students, staff, employers and the polity, via the development of students’ intellec...

Some Practical Aspects of Pluralism in Economics

World Economics Association Newsletter Editorial: Why Pluralism Stuart Birks 2 Message from Edward Fullbrook 2

The crisis makes clear that the effort of the mainstream in economic thinking to ignore or even suppress differing voices can have disastrous social consequences. There could, therefore, be no better time to build an institution like the World Economics Association that would encourage and project such voices." C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University " Today, economics needs methodolog...

Pluralism in Economics: Epistemological Rationales and Pedagogical Implementation

This paper first presents a series of epistemological rationales for pluralism as a guiding concept in economic research. In doing so, it highlights the inherent uncertainty of (scientific) knowledge as well as the complex and dynamic nature of socio-economic relationships to indicate how the discussion of theoretical and applied problems in economics might benefit from a pluralist approach. Ev...

The Turn in Economics: Neoclassical Dominance to Mainstream Pluralism?

This paper investigates whether since the 1980s neoclassical economics has been in the process of being supplanted as the dominant research programme in economics by a collection of competing research approaches which share relatively little in common with each other or with neoclassical economics. A shortlist of the new approaches in recent economics includes game theory, experimental economic...