Teaching Heterodox and Pluralist Economics – Some Useful Books
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This review highlights the strengths and weaknesses of three recently published useful resources for teaching economics from a pluralist and/or heterodox perspective. The introduction provides an overview other helpful (text-)books this purpose. Based on historical approach, Geoffrey Schneider’s book describes differentiates characteristics broad range economic ideas systems. core chapters Smith, Marx, Veblen, Keynes (+ Hayek) provide brilliant concise, very well written easily accessible plurality major in their evolution. Moreover, explanation is shown as intricately entwined with epochal eventful history
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عنوان ژورنال: Forum for Social Economics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1874-6381', '0736-0932']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2021.1937671