This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It … economics as a discipline. …

Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 … experimentation in economics. Remarks that experiments are impossible in economics have been (almost) eliminated only this decade …

Economics needs a set of agreed facts to create a scientific economic paradigm, without which economics remains trapped … progress which defines modern civilization. Misguided by some philosophers of science, economics has put the theoretical cart …

Shorter undergraduate studies, increasing specialization and the priority of applied research in Economics represent … allows developing valuable skills that might help overcome the criticisms against Economics due to its alleged incapacity to … a space for thought, self-criticism and introspection in which new economists may understand that Economics is a process …

history of their discipline. This paper traces the effects of positivism in economics, then argues that the history of … economics is a critical component of both the undergraduate teaching and the graduate training of economists, and that as such …, it should be reintroduced into the economics curriculum. It concludes by documenting some recent hopeful signs of change. …

of academic economics. We advocate the overhaul of undergraduate and postgraduate syllabuses starting with the adoption …