Table of Contents
List of Contributors. List of Referees. Economics and its teaching at a critical juncture: Introduction,
Samuel Decker, Wolfram Elsner and Svenja Flechtner. Part I: Why Pluralism is Important for (Teaching) a Serious Social Science: Foundations. 1 Pluralist economics: is it scientific?,
Sheila Dow. 2 Monism in Modern Science: the Case of Economics,
Frank Beckenbach. 3 Pluralism in Economics: Epistemological Rationales and Pedagogical Implementation,
Jakob Kapeller. 4 In and Against Orthodoxy: Teaching Economics in the Neoliberal Era,
Ben Fine. 5 An Outsider’s Perspective: What can economics teaching learn from History Didactics?,
Astrid Schwabe. Part II: International Perspectives on Pluralist Teaching. 6 Issues in Teaching of Economics and Pluralism in Brazil,
Rafael Galvão de Almeida and Ian Coelho de Souza Almeida. 7 Economics Education in India: from Pluralism to Neo-Liberalism and to ‘Hindutva’,
Sudipta Bhattacharyya. 8 China’s Idiosyncratic Economics: An Emerging Unknown Monism Driven by Pluralism,
Shuanping Dai. 9 The Need for an Independent Perspective: Teaching Economics in Ghana,
Hadrat Yusif. 10 Teaching the euro crisis: What do students in Germany and France learn about the causes of Europe’s economic crisis?,
Philipp Kortendiek and Till van Treeck. Part III: Economic Textbooks: Failures and new Pathways. 11 "Waging the War of Ideas": Economics as a Textbook Science and Its Possible Influence on Human Minds,
Silja Graupe. 12 The schoolmaster’s voice: How professional identities are formed by textbook discourses in mainstream economics,
Jens Maesse. 13 Why economics textbooks must, and how they can, be changed into a real-world and pluralist economics: The example of a fundamentally new complexity-economics micro-textbook,
Wolfram Elsner. 14 What can we learn from school economics education?,
Janina Urban. Part IV: The Prospects of Pluralism in Economics. 15 Explaining difference and diversity in an increasingly complex economics,
John Davis. 16 Towards a critical and transdisciplinary economic science?,
Samuel Decker. A Pluralist Economics Teaching is Practicable and Illuminating: A Conclusion,
Samuel Decker, Wolfram Elsner and Svenja Flechtner. Index