Economia Pluralista para Enfrentar Crisis Contemporanea

Pluralist Economics to Confront Recent Crisis

Jairo Parada ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Despite the deep impact of the 2008s Great Recession, Department of Economics around the world keep teaching the neoclassical paradigm as it nothing happened. Economics´ teaching, especially at the undergraduate level, does not leave room for a pluralist background, although somewhat similar process happens at the graduate level. Global dominance of approaches market oriented, based on an individualistic ontology, a methodological deductivism and the massive use of mathematical models since the last three decades, have been closing the possibilities of different approaches. In this essay, possible causes behind this phenomenon are explored, and several proposals are presented about how a more integral and plural Microeconomics could be taught, and a more grounded Macroeconomics involved with today´s problems, and a development theory that does not give up with the theoretical richness of the Latin American traditions, could be also presented to students. The main criteria would be to endow our graduates with a more versatile vision about economic thought and economic theory, aiming toward the opening of new and creative approaches about public policies that would be able to solve our structural problems. Several concrete suggestions are offered regarding curriculums and books, and mechanism to overcome the Procrustean bed that incorporates the teaching of the dominant approach only. At the end, we would have creative professionals and conscious about the myriad of possibilities that a pluralist approach of economics science brings about, and new avenues of creative ideas will be opened to implement such policies. This proposal implies a more audacious curriculum and less timid toward the critique of the dominant cathedral of the main current of thought in Economics.

Keywords: economic crisis; pluralist economics; economics teaching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 A22 A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-15, Revised 2016-05-15
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Published in Revista Economia del Caribe 17.NA(2016): pp. 162-185

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Working Paper: Economía pluralista para enfrentar la crisis contemporánea (2016)
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