Ridiculed and ignored in 2016, what can the ‘dismal science’ offer us now?
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In both the global North and South, economics tends to be taught with micro- and macroeconomic models that are disconnected from sociopolitical realities. We suggest new ways of teaching economics.
Economics struggles to explain the explosion of gift models at the heart of our online economy.
The idea that we make rational choices is the basis for how businesses and governments make their plans. But psychologists have been asking some awkward questions.
A row between South Africa’s finance minister and the country’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations has prompted academics to pen an open letter asking President Jacob Zuma to intervene.
Greece’s ‘accidental economist’ speaks to the UK’s leading minds on Syriza, the troika, and whether he’s just a little over-exposed.
Africa’s growth failure happened because of a combination of external economic shocks and a less-than-perfect policy response, from both international donors and national economic policymakers.
African economic history has had a renaissance and its most valuable contribution has been to show that Africans have not always been poor, nor are current poverty levels an inevitable destiny.
The dismal science has had a dismal verdict from the UK electorate, and the new government isn’t coming to the rescue either.
Brian Cox, Mary Beard, Mick Aston, Niall Ferguson are all (just about) household names. They each have academic success – and their own television programs (“Wonders of the Solar System”, “Meet the Romans…
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Strategy and Policy, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Economics, University of Athens
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Finance, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer, Research School of Economics, and Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
