Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, Zach Ward-Perkins
Abstract
This chapter makes the academic, educational, practical and political case for pluralism in economics. It uses case studies of macroeconomics, the environment and inequality, to demonstrate that academic economics must open up to new ways of thinking.
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This chapter makes the academic, educational, practical and political case for pluralism in economics. It uses case studies of macroeconomics, the environment and inequality, to demonstrate that academic economics must open up to new ways of thinking.
Key concepts: Pluralism (philosophy), Schools of economic thought, Economics, Economics education, Neoclassical economics, Heterodox economics, Positive economics, Mainstream economics