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"As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the
world, a group of students at Harvard University in the US walked out of their
introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and
limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of
economic inequality”.
A few weeks later, on the other side of the Atlantic, economics students at
Manchester University in the UK, unhappy that the rigid mathematical formulas
they were being taught in the classroom bore little relation to the tumultuous
economic fallout they were living through, set up a “post-crash economics
society”.
These small acts of discontent found echoes in campuses around the world in the
months that followed, as normally staid economics students demanded a broader
and more questioning syllabus that more accurately reflected and challenged the
world as it was.
These disparate strands came together in early 2013 at the London School of
Economics with the inaugural meeting of Rethinking Economics – a student-led
organisation that has gone on to challenge the way economics is taught at
universities around the world."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
