This paper surveys the teaching of pluralist economics in Australian universities with a particular focus on explaining growth and decline. The paper also presents the results of a survey of staff teaching pluralist economics to assess their background and views on the state of economics...

We describe a project introduced in an environmental economics course that engaged students in critical action. Critical action takes students beyond critical thinking, teaching them to think critically in analysing classroom material and to frame action critically with the intention of...

The purpose of this essay is to give my own perspective about what is wrong with the Chinese higher education and what is needed. From my perspective, and I believe I speak for many, if we are to truly understand our economy, we need to go beyond what is presented in the texts; to go beyond...

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.

Along with significant economic growth since 1980, economics major concentrations and economics students have proliferated in Chinese universities. But China has imported western mainstream economics without adjustment for China's unique cultural and economic conditions. This paper questions...

Pedagogical pluralism is difficult to implement in practice. This paper contrasts two approaches to the modelling of money in macroeconomics: the stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model of Godley and Lavoie and the mainstream neoclassical dynamic general equilibrium model of Barro. Students...