Principles and Pluralist Approaches in Teaching Economics

Samuel Decker is an economist and activist based in Berlin, Germany. He works as a scientific assistant for the online learning platform Exploring Economics ( exploring-economics.org/en/). He holds a master's degree in Political Economy of European Integration and is an active member of the student movement for pluralism in economics.

This volume is a state-of-the-art compilation of diverse and innovative perspectives, principles, and a number of practiced approaches of fields, courses, and methods of pluralist economics teaching. It fosters constructive controversy aiming to incite authors and commentators to engage in fruitful debate.

Towards a pluralist economic education for a transformative science - Introduction. Part 1: Principles of Teaching Pluralist Economics. 1. The Second Opinion: An Ethical Approach to Learning and Teaching Economics. 2. Making the incommensurable comparable: A comparative approach to pluralist economics education. 3. What can teaching critical pluralist economics gain from "de-othering" sociology?. 4. Comparing paradigms on a level playing field. 5. It Needs Two Eyes to See in Perspective: Teaching Economics through the Confrontation of Dissenting Views. 6. Economic competence, economic understanding, and reflexive judgment: A social theory of teaching teachers of economics. Part 2: Approaches and Building Blocks. 7. Introduction to Critical Political Economy in a multi-paradigmatic setting. 8. Heterodox perspectives in teaching the European integration and crisis: Critical political economy and post-Keynesianism. 9. Ecological economics in research and teaching: A matter of theoretical and ideological perspective. 10. Suggestions for incorporating sustainability into the macroeconomics course. 11. Demand-driven ecological collapse. A stock-flow fund-service model of money, energy and ecological scale. 12. Teaching feminist economics through student-written diaries. 13. Undermining the microeconomic textbook approach: Steps towards competitive pluralism. 14. Functional income distribution in economic paradigms: The failure of the neoclassical approach and alternatives. 15. The balance-sheet approach to macroeconomics. 16. How to teach Ethics & Economics to undergraduate students?. 17. Addressing controversies in economics instruction through interdisciplinary learning communities: The Evergreen experience. Part 3: Teaching for Socio-Ecological Transformation: Economics as a Transformative Science?. 18. Contours of a critical transformative science. 19. Transformative Economics - Calling for a more conscious relationship between economics and society. 20. Tackling the roots: (Economic) Education for social-ecological transformation and degrowth societies. 21. Pluralist economics is taking shape. But further steps have to follow - Conclusion. Appendix: Documentation: PEP-Promoting Economic Pluralism. A basic text of The Foundation for Promoting Reform towards pluralist Economics for the Public Interest (PREP)