Disciplinary differentiation and institutional independence: a viable template for a pluralist economics. (1st January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Argyrous, George; Thornton, Tim
• Is Part Of: International journal of pluralism and economics education. Volume 5:Number 2(2014)
• Page Start: 120
• Page End: 132
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Subjects: pluralism -- heterodox economics -- political economy -- teaching -- pedagogy -- curriculum; Economics -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Pluralism -- Periodicals; 330.071
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-5648

Abstract

This paper surveys the teaching of pluralist economics in Australian universities with a particular focus on explaining growth and decline. The paper also presents the results of a survey of staff teaching pluralist economics 1 to assess their background and views on the state of economics teaching. The key finding of our survey is that the most promising pathway to a genuinely pluralist economics appears to be disciplinary differentiation and institutional independence: disciplinary differentiation by teaching a pluralist economics under the subject 'political economy', and institutional independence by basing teaching in faculties of arts and social science away from economics departments and business faculties.