How economics lost its soul - by Jostein Hauge

Rethinking Economics — the international network of scholars and students that promotes pluralism in economics — has published a report on the state of the economics discipline. Specifically, the report looks at the degree to which economics degree programmes in the UK are equipping students for their future. It does so by reviewing economics programmes at 16 prestigious UK universities. Thanks for reading Global Currents! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The report concludes that the economics discipline is in a pretty dismal state. It finds that the economics curriculum in the UK places more focus on training students to ‘think like an economist’ rather than providing them with an understanding of how the economy actually works. These are the main findings of the report: The climate crisis and socio-ecological issues are broadly absent from economic curricula. 75% of universities do not teach any ecological economics; instead, when issues of ecological sus

Rethinking Economics — the international network of scholars and students that promotes pluralism in economics — has published a report on the state of the economics discipline. Specifically, the report looks at the degree to which economics degree programmes in the UK are equipping students for their future. It does so by reviewing economics programmes at 16 prestigious UK universities. Thanks for reading Global Currents! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The report concludes that the economics discipline is in a pretty dismal state. It finds that the economics curr