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A modest proposal for Europe: a two-part plan for overcoming the eurozone's crisis, redesigning its crumbling architecture, and reinvigorating the European Project

Varoufakis, Yanis; Holland, Stuart - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 2, pp. 227-235

During 2010, each and every response by the Eurozone to the galloping sovereign debt crisis has been consistently underwhelming. Monthly European Union Summit pronouncements, which during the first half of 2010 were met with initial goodwill by the markets and commentators, quickly proved the...

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Mind and matter: developing pluralist development economics

Staveren, Irene Van - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 2, pp. 120-144

theoretical unification but rather closeness to real world issues such as poverty, with a policy focus. …

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On Greece, the economic crisis and ethical cultivation

Pittaki, Zoe - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 2, pp. 223-226

This paper uses the current economic crisis to highlight the importance of ethical cultivation in the educational process relating – not exclusively – to economists' vocation. To do this, the author borrowed ideas from ancient Greek philosophy, as well as some very recent real-life examples.

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The global capitalist crisis and youth: from Tunisia and Egypt to Europe and the USA

Panayotakis, Costas - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 2, pp. 206-215

Departing from the recent revolutionary upsurge in the Arab world, this article focuses on the links between youth … heights, such protest has also been significant in other parts of the capitalist world, notably Europe. Interpreting youth … ordinary workers and citizens around the world together in an effort to address the social and economic chaos produced by a …

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Democracy and the capitalist crisis: the case of Greece

Panayotakis, Costas - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 2, pp. 216-222

The current economic crisis has revealed the tensions between capitalism and democracy and the extent to which the structural power relations of the former undermine the meaningfulness of democratic political institutions. This article explores these tensions by focusing on Greece and on the...

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Editorial: Teaching during the global financial crisis

Figart, Deborah M. - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 1 (2010) 3, pp. 236-241

Pedagogies infused by methodological pluralism are better able to encourage students to use stories to make connections between classroom material and the pulse of their daily lives. Teaching during times of economic and financial crises also provides an opening for theoretical pluralism. The...

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Financial capitalism trapped in an 'impossible' profit rate. The infeasibility of a 'usual' profit rate, considering fictitious capital, and its redistributive, ecological, and pol...

Elsner, Wolfram - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 4 (2013) 3, pp. 243-262

This paper explores the crisis and some implications against the Marxian profit rate (PR). The PR helps explaining a number of phenomena often considered disparate. The focus is on integrating exploded fictitious capital in the PR and to estimate a corrected PR. We estimate global fictitious...

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Reclaiming math for economists: a pedagogical approach to overcoming a persistent barrier to pluralism in economics

Giannakouros, Panayotis; Chen, Lihua - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 3 (2012) 2, pp. 118-143

This paper presents ideas for a course in the undergraduate economics curriculum designed to de-mystify mathematics and empower students to respond creatively and ethically when they encounter situations that involve mathematics. We build on the strengths of courses that already exist in many...

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Monetary policy before and after the crisis: what should we be teaching undergraduates?

Rochon, Louis-Philippe - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 3 (2012) 3, pp. 333-348

The economic crisis has seen central banks turn to some rather innovative practices in order to deal with the great recession. In particular, the Federal Reserve in the USA has made considerable use of what has been called 'quantitative easing'. This practice marked a great departure from...

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The fundamental role of money and banking in macroeconomic analysis and policymaking

Rossi, Sergio - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 3 (2012) 3, pp. 308-319

The crisis that burst in 2007 has revealed a number of conceptual and methodological flaws of neoclassical economic analysis, based on rational behaviour, representative agents, and microfounded macroeconomics, where money and banking are considered as pertaining to the microeconomics of goods...

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