Nancy Folbre: Occupy Economics
From Nancy Folbre’s NYT Economix post, Occupy Economics: The Occupy Wall Street movement, displaced from some key geographic locations, now enjoys a small but significant encampment among economists....
View ArticleEconomics 4 People, the Planet, and the Future
From James Boyce’s post on the TripleCrisis blog: Our current economic crisis is not only a crisis of the economy. It is also a crisis of economics. The free-market fundamentalism of the closing...
View ArticleEcon4 in Chronicle of Higher Ed
Recently critics have mounted a more fundamental line of attack on mainstream economists, taking aim at the ideology that has grown dominant over the past 30 years, which they say played a significant...
View ArticleEconomics 4 People
From the Valley Advocate of Northampton, Mass.: Popular economics education? The phrase seems oxymoronic. What field is more institutionalized and less popularized than economics? Yet here is Econ4, a...
View ArticleEthics in economics: a step forward
The Wall Street Journal, reporting on the American Economics Association’s recent decision to require economists to disclose potential conflicts of interest, quotes Econ4’s George DeMartino and Gerald...
View ArticleEcon4: Changing the Way We Look at Economics
Fast Company (fastcoexist.com) reports on Econ4: “We’re economists: we want to promote not only the supply of new economics teaching but also student demand for it.” Read the story and accompanying...
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