The Crisis in Economics

Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majority have voted with their feet and signed up for business and management degrees, but in the past two years there has grown an important new movement that has decided to tackle those who think they run economics head-on. This is the Post-autistic Economics Network. The PAE Network started in France and has spread first to Cambridge and then other parts of the world. The name derives from the fact that mainstream economics has been accused of institutional autism ie. qualitative impairment of social interaction, failure to develop peer relationships and lack of emotional and social reciprocity. In short, economics has lost touch with reality and has become way too abstract. This book charts the impact the PAE Network has had so far and constitutes a manifesto for a different kind of economics - it features key contributions from all the major voices in heterodox economics including Tony Lawson, Deirdre McCloskey, Geoff Hodgson, Sheila Dow and Warren Samuels.

ISBN 0415308984   Pages 200 ISBN13 9780415308984 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 499 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Economics & Social Theory S. Publication date 27 Mar 2003   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress HB74.9.F8   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 330.1   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction: a brief history of the post-autistic economics movement by Edward Fullbrook		1
Pt. I		Documents		11
		The French student's petition		13
		The French professors' petition		15
		Post-autistic economics newsletter, Issue No. 1		18
		Post-autistic economics newsletter, Issue No. 3		22
		Two curricula: Chicago vs PAE		30
		Advice from student organizers in France and Spain		34
		Opening up economics, The Cambridge 27		36
		The Kansas City Proposal		39
		Support the Report		42
Pt. II		Teaching		45
		A contribution on the state of economics in France and the world by James K. Galbraith		47
		The Franco-American neoclassical alliance by Joseph Halevi		53
		Plural education by Hugh Stretton		55
		Realism vs axiomatics by Jacques Sapir		58
		Teaching economics through controversies by Gilles Raveaud		62
		A good servant but a bad master by Geoff Harcourt		70
		Three observations on a "cultural revival" in France by Josephy Halevi		72
		Economists have no ears by Steve Keen		74
		Economics and multinationals by Grazia Jetto-Gillies		77
		A year in French economics by Emmanuelle Benicourt		80
		These "wonderful" US textbooks		83
		Ignoring commercial reality by Alan Shipman		86
		The perils of pluralistic teaching and how to reduce them by Peter E. Earl		90
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"The book as an excellent tool to introduce undergraduate and graduate students to a critical understanding of the current state of economics."-Frederic S. Lee, University of Missouri-Kansas City

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