Making the incommensurable comparable: a comparative approach to pluralist economics education

Andreas Dimmelmeier, Frederick Heussner, Andrea Pürckhauer and Janina Urban
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Andreas Dimmelmeier: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK and Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Frederick Heussner: Network for Pluralism in Economics, Germany
Andrea Pürckhauer: Network for Pluralism in Economics, Germany
Janina Urban: Research Institute for Societal Development, Düsseldorf, Germany

European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, 2017, vol. 14, issue 2, 250-266

Abstract: Demands for pluralism in economics education have been widespread in recent years. As change in the universities is slow and piecemeal, we present a comparative approach to economics which builds the intellectual basis for the online learning platform Exploring Economics (www.exploring-economics.org). This approach is committed to a vision of theoretical and methodological pluralism and is grounded in concepts derived from biology, the history of economic thought, the philosophy of science and international political economy. We find central categories in which the ten schools of economic thought selected show meta-theoretical patterns which may not only serve as a guide to economics education but may also be relevant for economics research.

Keywords: economics education; teaching of economics; pluralist economics; philosophy of economics; taxonomy; meta-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 B4 B5 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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