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We document and analyze the emergence and consolidation of neoliberalism in higher education in economics in Colombia. The research focuses on four interrelated categories through which the neoliberal ideology changed the scientific field of economics by replacing endogenously developed...
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The author reflects on the state of macroeconomic theory, and more specifically on how monetary economics is being taught in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Whereas heterodox macroeconomic theory is very much alive due to the influx of a large number of contributions and...
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In this paper, the parts of four leading economics textbooks that deal with exchange-rate theories are reviewed. The books are by Krugman/Obstfeld/Melitz, Blanchard/Johnson, Mankiw/Taylor and Samuelson/Nordhaus. The theoretical background for this exercise is the fact that exchange-rate theory...
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The present paper on the now partly well known Russian mathematician and amateur economist v. Charasoff was originally written in 1987 together with H. Duffner three years after Charasoff's remarkable contribution of 1910 Das System des Marxismus (The system of Marxism) had been rediscovered by...
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The article reviews debates concerning financialization in South Korea, with a focus on ongoing arguments between liberal, post-Keynesian, institutionalist and Marxist economists. It argues that post-Keynesian and institutionalist perspectives in particular neglect important class processes...
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This paper defends The Transformation of Values into Prices on the Basis of Random Systems, published in EIER, by answering to the Comments made in the same journal by Professors Mori, Morioka and Yamazaki. The clarifications mainly concern the justification of the randomness assumptions, the...
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This paper describes how to implement and run a game for teaching the principles of money and banking to an undergraduate economics class. The game primarily deals with the market for loanable funds, but numerous extensions are provided to cover topics such as monetary policy, the tools of the...
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Im Zuge der jüngsten globalen Krisenphänomene und Fehlentwicklungen auf den Finanzmärkten sowie der zunehmenden Virulenz individueller und gesellschaftlicher Risiken, die mit modernen Geld- und Finanzwirtschaften verbunden sind, hat sich die Diskussion um die Programmatik finanzieller Bildung...
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Der Artikel zeichnet die Debatte über die Einführung eines separaten Schulfachs Wirtschaft nach und präsentiert ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Studierenden in den neuen Studiengängen mit Lehramtsoption Wirtschaft beziehungsweise Politik in Baden-Württemberg. Oft wird gefordert,...
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This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It assembles recent empirical studies and contributes by presenting their main findings in a comprehensible manner as well as contextualizing them in the current economic and...
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