Who shaped our world more Neil Armstrong, Jimi Hendrix, or the King of Sweden? By any standards, 1969 was a momentous year. Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon, half a million people came to Woodstock to hear Jimi Hendrix, and the Stonewall riots kicked off the gay liberation movement. The … Continued
Mark Preen looks at the situation in the UK since economics A level reform in 2015 As both an economics graduate and A Level Economics teacher I have observed with great interest the Rethinking Economics Movement which emerged following the 2008 Financial Crisis. Criticisms levelled at university economic departments by their students included the lack … Continued
Larry Elliot in his piece ‘Heretics welcome! Economics needs a new Reformation’ reported on Steve Keen and other leading economists ‘nailing’ 33 theses on ‘economic reformation’ to the door of a top university. This was designed to echo the apocryphal story of Luther nailing up his 95 theses 500 years ago. Clearly we do need … Continued
At last it is official after weeks when everyone ‘in the know’ knew but were bound to secrecy. This week to almost no fanfare the Government’s economics research funding body, the Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC), announced that a consortium led by NIESR (the National Institute of Economic and Social Research) had won their … Continued