Introduction to the Handbook of Teaching Philosophy to Economists

Giancarlo Ianulardo, John B. Davis and Ricardo F. Crespo

Chapter 1 in Handbook of Teaching Philosophy to Economists, 2025, pp 1-9 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Handbook provides a variety of fresh perspectives from different parts of the world on how students in economics courses can draw on philosophical reasoning to tackle pressing contemporary economic and social issues with a reflective and critical mind. In this Introduction, we spell out the rationale that motivated our undertaking of this initiative. It was felt that current economics privileges the quantitative study of economics and that reducing the complexity of human beings with all their emotions, desires, aspirations and imaginations, to an all-encompassing “representative maximising agent” is, if not wrong, at least limiting, and likely to produce inaccurate predictions and explanations unequal to the challenges facing society today. In this Handbook, we aim to bridge the gap between a flourishing body of scholarship in the philosophy of economics literature and an economics education in need of a deeper rethinking, as called for by many students and educators today. Our ambition is to provide new tools for students, teachers, and researchers that are both practical and theoretical, thus helping to pave the way for the revision of the economics curriculum.

Keywords: Philosophy of economics; Economic methodology; Economics education; Rationality; Reflectivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035336814
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