[PeDAGoG] CORE (Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics)

Fri Jun 24 20:21:58 CEST 2022

Dear Christian,

The CORE curriculum is an improvement over standard approaches in economics
departments but it is fundamentally neoclassical.  It moves away from
neoliberalism but is firmly ensconced in a liberal view of markets and
capitalism.  Putting lipstick on a pig is, to me, an appropriate
characterization.  Check out the attached New Yorker article.

Best,
Steve

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:58 PM Christian Stalberg <
cstalberg at mymail.ciis.edu> wrote:

> Sharing this resource. Would love to hear reactions. My kneejerk response
> was that this is simply putting lipstick on a pig (the pig being the
> systemic structural violence of capitalism).
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> https://www.core-econ.org/
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> …oh and if you would like to know where this initiative got its start,
> read this
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> https://www.philanthropy.com/article/thinking-anew-about-capitalism
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> Thank you in advance for your interest and attention!
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> Christian Stalberg
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> Doctoral Student
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> Anthropology & Social Change
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> CIIS, San Francisco, CA
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> *"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the
> things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis*
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