[PeDAGoG] teaching 'economics'

Ashish Kothari ashishkothari at riseup.net
Mon Jun 27 05:01:53 CEST 2022


On which note, the attached may be of interest, and is hopefully 
relevant to this conversation! short version published, and original 
longer version

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On 27/06/22 6:53 am, Sujit.Sinha wrote:
>
> I would love to glance through Christine’s list of 90 books. As a 
> non-economist ( I was formally a science student with Chemistry as 
> major ) , it is unlikely that I have read any  of them, although I do 
> recall glancing through /The Affluent Society. /But the book which was 
> a life changer for me was E.F.Schumacher’s /Small is Beautiful/ 
>  published in 1973 and available in India from 1977. I wonder if 
> people who were formally studying  Economics had any familiarity with 
> this book.
>
> Sujit
>
> *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG [mailto:gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *Christine Dann
> *Sent:* Monday, June 27, 2022 3:18 AM
> *To:* gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org
> *Subject:* [PeDAGoG] teaching 'economics'
>
> This is turning into a very worthwhile 'alternatives' conversation!//
>
> I haven't seen the book by Rist which Michel refers to, but his book 
> /The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith 
> /(first edition 1997) was where I first encountered a critique of 
> 'development' as a word used to whitewash colonial capitalism. As it 
> still is, alas.
>
> I am not as sanguine as Steve and Ashish that economics as a 
> discipline or body of (so-called) knowledge can ever be made fit for 
> post-capitalist purposes. I just counted how many books on economics I 
> have on my shelves and it came to 90 (!) The oldest one is J K 
> Galbraith's /The Affluent Society /(1958) and the newest one is /Too 
> Much Money/ (2021) by NZ author Max Rashbrooke. Four years ago I made 
> a chronological bibliography of the critics of orthodox economics who 
> propose more socially and ecologically friendly ways of managing the 
> material world, from the 1950s to the 2010s. (Contact me directly if 
> you'd like a copy.) It became clear from doing it that there was a big 
> upswing in 'alternatives' in the 1970s, almost nothing in the 1980s 
> and 1990s, a few more in the 2000s, and a lot more in the 2010s. Now 
> that we have reached the 50th anniversary of the/Limits to Growth 
> /study, and its business-as-usual model is sadly coming to pass, I 
> think we will see a lot more in this decade. They will also return to 
> the issue of energy, which the 'alternative' economic thinkers of the 
> 1970s took seriously, starting with Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's /The 
> Entropy Law and the Economic Process /(1971). I subscribe to the 
> /Real-World Economic Review/ (http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/) which 
> is where a lot of heterodox economists publish, but most of what they 
> write still assumes that 'economics' can and should be used as a tool 
> of state management, which I find problematic.
>
> Regarding the origins of the word and whether it can be rescued or 
> rehabilitated, Ashish - yes, it comes from 'oikos' meaning 'home' (and 
> as such is also in 'ecumenical')  - but the word ecology was not 
> created until 1866, and it was created by the new biological 
> scientists who until then had referred to what was going on in nature 
> as 'Nature's Economy'. (Read all about it in Donald Worster's 1977 
> classic /Nature's Economy The Roots of Ecology/.)
>
> I am currently developing a concept of 'home-steadying' as an 
> alternative to economics. The Earth is the only home that humans will 
> ever have, and it needs to be restored to being one fit for all 
> (non-humans as well) to live in. So instead of growing the economy and 
> thinking that will create homes fit to live in for all, we manage our 
> existing home(s) better, so that all can live well. (I can but dream...😁)
>
> best
>
> Christine
>
> P.S. The origins of the word pedagog are a worry, but I think that the 
> meaning of word has been changed to 'one who supports a learner' (as 
> the slaves sort-of were), and now pedagogy is the 'science' of how to 
> teach, and is very varied accordingly.
>
> On 27/06/22 04:53, Michel Pimbert wrote:
>
>     Dear all
>
>     Thanks for this exchange.
>
>     Gilbert Rist’s book provides valuable ideas for alternative
>     economics curriculum. May be helpful.
>
>     See: /The Delusions of Economics The Misguided Certainties of a
>     Hazardous Science
>
>
>     /
>
>     https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Delusions-of-Economics-by-Gilbert-Rist/9781848139237
>
>
>     Best wishes
>
>     Michel
>
>     *From: *GTA-PeDAGoG <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org>
>     <mailto:gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on behalf of
>     "Steven J. Klees" <sklees at umd.edu> <mailto:sklees at umd.edu>
>     *Reply-To: *"PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global
>     Group" <gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
>     <mailto:gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
>     *Date: *Sunday, 26 June 2022 at 15:21
>     *To: *"PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group"
>     <gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
>     <mailto:gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
>     *Subject: *EXTERNAL: Re: [PeDAGoG] CORE (Curriculum Open-access
>     Resources in Economics)
>
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>
>     As someone schooled in neoclassical economics, I find both its
>     neoliberal and liberal variants bankrupt.  I find alternative
>     approaches to economics most significant in what is being done in
>     economics in practice by groups like GTA and others, as I have
>     said in this blog:
>
>     https://evonomics.com/klees-neoclassical-economics-failed-what-comes-next/
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>     There have been interesting attempts to break free of the
>     neoclassical straightjacket in approaches like ecological
>     economics and feminist economics, but too often they don't really
>     break free.  However, sometimes under the label
>     "political economy" you have true alternatives that start with the
>     bankruptcy of capitalism ("political economy" is also used by the
>     right).  The World Economics Association takes a "heterodox"
>     stance (in opposition to "orthodox" economics which is another
>     term for neoclassical) and publishes a list of alternative texts,
>     some of which offer more sensible approaches to economics:
>
>     https://www.worldeconomicsassociation.org/textbook-commentaries/alternative-texts/
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>     Best,
>
>     Steve
>
>     On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 6:38 AM Ashish Kothari
>     <ashishkothari at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>         This is interesting, friends. Though, does it not depend on
>         what definition of 'economics' we are accepting as legitimate?
>         Its original meaning (from 'oikos' ... and therefore also
>         linked to ecology) is 'management of the home' ... so if
>         ecology is put at the base ('understanding the home') and we
>         relate to the Earth our home in ways that reflect a deep
>         understanding, is that not something humans have been doing
>         forever?
>
>         So, do we accept the modernist westernised version of
>         'economics', or the much broader, deeper meaning of it ... do
>         we discard it totally because it is badly corrupted/co-opted,
>         or do we rescue it? This relates to one of my favourite
>         pre-occupations, of understanding original meanings of words,
>         and seeing if there is subversive/revolutionary potential in
>         rescuing them, or are they so inextricably embedded in the
>         system we are fighting against, that its best to abandon them
>         and find alternatives? An eminently 'pedagogical' quest, I
>         suppose.
>
>         And in that spirit, note that the term 'pedagogy', at least
>         according to my laptop's inbuilt dictionary, comes from a v.
>         dubious origin: "late Middle English: via Latin from Greek
>         */paidagōgos/*, denoting a slave who accompanied a child to
>         school (from */pais/*, */paid- /*‘boy’ + */agōgos /*‘guide’)."
>         I found this out to my utter chagrin /after /having suggested
>         PeDAGoG (Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group) as
>         the acronym for this network!  So in this case, its not about
>         rescuing the original meaning, but giving it a new, v.
>         different, one! But sorry, let this observation not distract
>         from the main topic of conversation here ... whether economics
>         should or should not be in curricula, and it is should, waht
>         should be its contours/substance (and /not /going further here
>         into whether formal curricula should exist in the first place :):)
>
>
>         ashish
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>         On 26/06/22 2:08 pm, Aram Ziai wrote:
>
>             Dear all,
>
>             I agree and wanted to point out that Escobar has described
>             already in 95 economics as a cultural discourse imagining
>             itself to be a science... but also that the 'problem' of
>             population growth is usually focusing on poor people in
>             the South (who use far far less resources and emit far far
>             less CO2 than the global middle class) and of course on
>             women (whose right to control their body is compromised)
>             thus has racist and sexist elements.
>
>             Best
>
>             Aram
>
>             On 25.06.22 22:37, Christine Dann wrote:
>
>                 Kia ora tatou
>
>                 I wonder if it is possible for /any/ economics
>                 curriculum to be satisfactory. In Bruno Latour's view
>                 (see the quotes from/After Lockdown Metamorphosis/,
>                 2021, below) 'economics'  is an invention which has
>                 been and is still imposed with force. It obscures
>                 reality at best, and destroys it at worst.
>
>                 It was interesting to see in the philanthropy article
>                 which Christian provided the link to that
>                 'philanthropy' now includes creating pro-capitalist
>                 propaganda. This reinforces Latour's point that a lot
>                 of work has gone and continues to go into creating the
>                 pseudo-reality of 'economics' and the Economy. It can
>                 be 'soft' work, like the creation of 'philanthropic'
>                 propaganda; or 'hard' work, like the murder of
>                 indigenous people and their supporters trying to
>                 prevent further 'economic' extraction of the life of
>                 their lands, and the minerals beneath them.
>
>                 It is still heretical these days to say that the
>                 Economy is not real, and we should focus on what is,
>                 and stop aiming to grow the Economy until it has
>                 devoured the Earth and all on it. It has been
>                 heretical for 50 years now, since the /Limits to
>                 Growth/ report was published in 1972, and a very small
>                 new party in a very small new-ish state (the New
>                 Zealand Values Party) put out an election manifesto
>                 with two key policies - Zero Economic Growth and Zero
>                 Population Growth. I don't know of any political party
>                 which has been so bold since - and you probably all
>                 know the connections between economic and population
>                 growth and how problematic both are these days. Also
>                 the connections with fossil fuel extraction and use.
>
>                 If I were a teenager today and had a choice between
>                 studying economics in a classroom or learning
>                 gardening in a community garden, I know what the smart
>                 choice would be.
>
>                 Christine
>
>
>                 p 59 “This time round, it’s not just a matter of
>                 improving, changing, greening or revolutionising the
>                 ‘economic’ system, but of /completely doing without
>                 the Economy./”
>
>                 p 60 “/Homo oeconomicus /has nothing native, natural
>                 or autochthonous about him, as we’ve long known.
>                 Strictly speaking, he comes from on high … /from the
>                 top down/, and not at all from ordinary practical
>                 experience, /from the ground up/, from the
>                 relationships that lifeforms maintain with other
>                 lifeforms.”
>
>                 p 60 “For the Economy to expand … as the bedrock of
>                 all possible life on earth, an enormous amount of
>                 infrastructure building is required to impose it as an
>                 obvious fact against the dogged resistance put up by
>                 the most common experience in reaction to such violent
>                 colonisation.”
>
>                 p 61 [Without this infrastructure] “no one would ever
>                 have invented ‘individuals’ capable of a selfishness
>                 drastic enough, constant enough, consistent enough to
>                 not ‘owe anyone anything’ and to see all others as
>                 ‘aliens’ and all life forms as ‘resources’. Beneath
>                 the evidence of a native, primal Economy lie three
>                 centuries of economisation….” [this preliminary
>                 embedding requires extreme violence]
>
>                 p 62 [In order not to stay in the economisation trap,
>                 the way out proposed by Duzan Kazik] “… consists in
>                 /never agreeing/ to say of any subject whatever that
>                 ‘it has an economic dimension’! Bowing to that
>                 dimension … always boils down to suggesting that, on
>                 the one hand, there is a profound, essential, vital
>                 reality – the economic situation – but that on the
>                 other hand, we could nonetheless, if we had the time,
>                 take ‘other dimensions’ into account – social, moral,
>                 political dimensions and even, why not, if there’s
>                 anything left over, an ‘ecological dimension’… Well,
>                 reasoning accordingly means giving the Economy a
>                 material reality it doesn’t have, and lending a hand
>                 to a power that trickles down from on high.”
>
>                 pp 74 - 75 “As soon as you describe a territory the
>                 right way round, you feel in your bones why the
>                 Economy could not be realistic or materialistic ….
>                 Embracing the Economy means interrupting the
>                 resumption of interactions by inventing beings who
>                 won’t have to account for themselves on the pretext
>                 that they’re autonomous individuals whose limits are
>                 protected by an exclusive right of ownership.”
>
>
>                 On 25/06/22 06:21, Steven J. Klees wrote:
>
>                     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).
>
>                         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
>
>                         https://www.philanthropy.com/article/thinking-anew-about-capitalism
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>
>                         Thank you in advance for your interest and
>                         attention!
>
>                         __
>
>                         Christian Stalberg
>
>                         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/
>
>                         /“What is it that we can do that addresses
>                         whatever the problem is, rather than what it
>                         is that we’re trying to get somebody else to
>                         do.” – Alice Lynd/
>
>                         /“It’s better to die for an idea that is going
>                         to live than to live for an idea that is going
>                         to die.” – Steve Biko/
>
>                         /“We live in capitalism, its power seems
>                         inescapable – but so did the divine right of
>                         kings.” - Ursula K. Le Guin/
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>             Open access article: Neocolonialism in the global economy of the 21st century: an overview, in: Momentum Quarterly 9 (3), 128-140. Open access:https://www.momentum-quarterly.org/ojs2/index.php/momentum/article/view/3478  <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.momentum-quarterly.org%2Fojs2%2Findex.php%2Fmomentum%2Farticle%2Fview%2F3478&data=05%7C01%7Cab4781%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cab1d86795e704565164a08da577f2d25%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C637918500987390546%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TO0Q9bSAqCOxhJ1QFwhNBVSlmrLjcQuEhU99%2F%2Fu%2F1vw%3D&reserved=0>
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>             New edited volume: Beyond the master's tools? Decolonizing knowledge orders, research methods and teaching. London: Rowman & Littlefield (with Franziska Müller and Daniel Bendix)
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>             Open access book: Development Discourse and Global History. From Colonialism to the Sustainable Development Goals. London: Routledge.
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>             Open access article: Post-Development: Premature Burials and Haunting Ghosts. In: Development and Change 46 (4), 833-854.
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