Blasphemy in the classroom: in search of microeconomics textbooks for heterodox instructors

Erik Dean and Mitchell R. Green
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Mitchell R. Green: Research Scholar, Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Granville, OH, USA

Review of Keynesian Economics, 2017, vol. 5, issue 4, 551–562

Abstract: In this review of introductory-level college textbooks for microeconomics we begin with the premise that heterodox economics is to be taken as independent from, and alternative to, the neoclassical mainstream. We argue that pluralistic curricula and pedagogical strategies should reflect this, rather than the too-common relegation of heterodoxy to a critical fringe or to nascent, yet fundamentally consistent, lines of inquiry. After defining common elements that we believe would be essential to a suitable introduction to heterodox economics, we review each of the four textbooks in search of a volume that is not just heretical to neoclassical economics, but truly blasphemous.

Keywords: heterodox economics; microeconomics; pluralism; pedagogy; curriculum; textbooks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 A20 B5 D00 D02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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