[PeDAGoG] teaching 'economics'

[Steven J. Klees]

What a wonderful and interesting discussion!  Sujit asked if those studying
economics were influenced by *Small Is Beautiful* which came out in 1973.
I remember it as great but I was studying economics in the late sixties and
early seventies.  The program was almost exclusively neoclassical but we
had one Marxist professor -- or radical political economist -- as they were
sometimes called then (in the U.S. they broke away From the American
Economics Association and formed URPE - the Union of Radical
Political Economics which is still active today).  Baran and Sweezy's *Monopoly
Capital* (1966) was influential then,and in the early seventies so were the
dependency theorists.  I was also a budding feminist and became very
interested in works on socialist feminism looking at the intersection of
capitalism and patriarchy (to which racism and more has been added more
recently).

Irene asks a tough question: "can we have economic knowledge that doesn't
harm humans and nature."  Perhaps (although all knowledge has the potential
for harm, no?).  I think of the useful insights of people like Wallerstein,
Hickel, especially Samir Amin.whose devastating critique of mainstream
economics as parascience (*Spectres of Capitalism*) and his ideas of
delinking connected to Nyere's self-reliance and today's bioregionalism and
degrowth.  Even Piketty is now promoting participatory socialism. And now,
there is all this work on non-Western thought and practice!  I find it all
hopeful despite Christian's warning about reform vs. revolution and not
having the time for the former. and the difficulties of the latter!

Steve

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 1:03 PM Juliana Neira <Juliana.Neira at uvm.edu> wrote:

> Hi all
>
>
> Here go two resources on alternative economic models and
> on reformulating university economics curricula, in addition to the already
> mentioned Doughnut Economics
> <https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics>:
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> https://www.rethinkeconomics.org/
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> https://www.ecologicaleconomicsforall.org/program-for-ee4all-crash-course
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> A pleasure reading all of you!
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>
> Juliana Neira|PhD Student
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> Sustainable Development Policy, Economics, & Governance
>
> University of Vermont
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> L4Ecozoic.org <https://www.l4ecozoic.org/>
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> she/her
> <https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/GLSEN%20Pronouns%20Resource.pdf>
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> *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on behalf
> of Ashish Kothari <ashishkothari at riseup.net>
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 26, 2022 11:01:53 PM
> *To:* gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org
> *Subject:* Re: [PeDAGoG] teaching 'economics'
>
>
> On which note, the attached may be of interest, and is hopefully relevant
> to this conversation! short version published, and original longer version
>
> ashish
> 
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> Ashish Kothari
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> Kalpavriksh
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> Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa
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> 908 Deccan Gymkhana
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> Pune 411004, India
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> Kalpavriksh <https://kalpavriksh.org/>
>
> Vikalp Sangam <http://vikalpsangam.org/>
>
> Radical Ecological Democracy <http://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/>
>
> Global Tapestry of Alternatives
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>
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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
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> *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG [mailto:gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org
> <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
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>
>
> 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.
>
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>
> On 27/06/22 04:53, Michel Pimbert wrote:
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> Dear all
>
>
>
> Thanks for this exchange.
>
>
>
> Gilbert Rist’s book provides valuable ideas for alternative economics
> curriculum. May be helpful.
>
>
>
> See:
>
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> *The Delusions of Economics The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous
> Science *
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>
> https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Delusions-of-Economics-by-Gilbert-Rist/9781848139237
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> Best wishes
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> Michel
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> *From: *GTA-PeDAGoG <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org>
> <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on behalf of "Steven J. Klees"
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> <gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org> <gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
> *Date: *Sunday, 26 June 2022 at 15:21
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> *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:
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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:
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> https://www.worldeconomicsassociation.org/textbook-commentaries/alternative-texts/
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> Best,
>
> Steve
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>
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> 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:
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> 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/
> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.core-econ.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cab4781%40coventry.ac.uk%7Cab1d86795e704565164a08da577f2d25%7C4b18ab9a37654abeac7c0e0d398afd4f%7C0%7C0%7C637918500987390546%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dAHH4gUxmxoGYczTgEP3IYn2TyiTbEwnHjVjOnt5LU4%3D&reserved=0>
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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!
>
>
>
>
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> __
>
> Christian Stalberg
>
> Doctoral Student
>
> Anthropology & Social Change
>
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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: Post-Development: Premature Burials and Haunting Ghosts. In: Development and Change 46 (4), 833-854.
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