<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Dear all</font><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Thanks for this </font><font face="Arial" size="4" class="">exchange.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Gilbert Rist’s book provides valuable ideas for alternative economics curriculum. May be helpful.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">See:</font><font size="4" class=""><font face="Arial" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </font><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class="">The Delusions of Economics <small style="box-sizing: inherit;" class="">The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous Science</small></i></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 14.999999046325684px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-style: normal; font-size: 19px;" class=""><a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Delusions-of-Economics-by-Gilbert-Rist/9781848139237" class="">https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Delusions-of-Economics-by-Gilbert-Rist/9781848139237</a> </span></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 19px;" class="">Best wishes</span></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 19px;" class="">Michel<br class=""></span></span></font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Jun 2022, at 19:21, Steven J. Klees <<a href="mailto:sklees@umd.edu" class="">sklees@umd.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Christian,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Steve</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 12:58 PM Christian Stalberg <<a href="mailto:cstalberg@mymail.ciis.edu" class="">cstalberg@mymail.ciis.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="gmail-m_-8904228590634638221WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">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). <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><a href="https://www.core-econ.org/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.core-econ.org/</a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">…oh and if you would like to know where this initiative got its start, read this<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><a href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/thinking-anew-about-capitalism" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="">https://www.philanthropy.com/article/thinking-anew-about-capitalism</span></a></span> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">Thank you in advance for your interest and attention!<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">__<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">Christian Stalberg<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">Doctoral Student<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">Anthropology & Social Change<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">CIIS, San Francisco, CA<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="">“<span style="" class="">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<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">“</span></i><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(32,32,32)" class="">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</span></i><i class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but so did the divine right of kings.” - Ursula K. Le Guin<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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