Bringing a pluralist approach to economics into the...

Bringing a pluralist approach to economics into the classroom represents a specific challenge for scholars in heterodox economics and political economy. It is a specific challenge not only because a pluralist take is a novel experience for many students, but also because the covered material is typically less canonical and concepetually homogenous than the presentation of a standard introductory economics textbook. Against this backdrop, it comes as no surprise that there exists quite a breadth of online resources for textbooks, teaching material and course syllabi, which partly substitutes for the function of standard textbooks and, at the same time, allows for considering a greater variety of approaches towards doing and teaching economics. It is, hence, great to see that the current issue of the International Journal for Pluralism in Economics and Economic Education complements these efforts by providing a timely collection of papers on “teaching inequality in an age of pluralism”.

To further improve the accessibility of these resources, I thought it would probably be useful to collect a series of best-practice cases on pluralist teaching. Hence, I hereby urge you to send me material on courses in economic and political economy from a pluralist perspective, which you would consider exceptionally well-done or in any other way archetypical or exemplary for what a pluralist approach to teaching economics should look like. You can send any suggestion to newsletter@heterodoxnews.com and I will be glad to present some of your submissions in future editorials or compile a set of “best-practice” examples for the Heterodox Economics Directory and related archives!

Finally, let me remind you that the Newsletter now switches into its “summer mode”, which implies that the Newsletter will only appear every four weeks during the next two months.

All the best,

Jakob