In “Teaching the Principles of Economics: A Proposal for a Multi-Paradigmatic Approach,” Janet Knoedler and Daniel Underwood say:
“Buttressing their point is Colander and Arjo Klamer’s excellent survey of graduate students in economics, who complained that they were disappointed with …
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Journal article by Janet T. Knoedler, Daniel A. Underwood; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 37, 2003.

Conversations editors see this as a fitting segue to Klamer et al’s forthcoming textbook, The Economic Conversation

View original post in Real World Economics Review, 15 February, 2010.

Klamer’s comment:

If it is agreed that standard economic representations do not do justice to the complexities of the new economy, how else could we represent an economy that is more about symbols and the production of meanings than about the production of goods and services? This book begins the exploration with great imagination showing how much is gained from encounters with other disciplines. It sets the agenda for the much needed reevaluation of economics as a science

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Meer informatie? Email Tjitske Dijkstra < +316 5571 8609 > Erasmus University Rotterdam

Meer informatie? Email Tjitske Dijkstra < +316 5571 8609 > Erasmus University Rotterdam

Meer informatie? Email Tjitske Dijkstra < +316 5571 8609 > Erasmus University Rotterdam

Date tuesday 9 March 2010
Time 15:45
Location TvA 5.1.18
Speaker Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Description On Tuesday 9 March 2010 Arjo Klamer of the Erasmus University Rotterdam will give a seminar in the NiCE Research Seminars series. The paper that will be presented is entitled “Economics as a moral science“. The seminar takes place in room Tva 5.1.18 from 3.45-5 p.m. See the seminar site for more information.

Contact Floris Heukelom
E-mail f.heukelom@fm.ru.nl

The LED is a career event especially for econometricians. It is interesting both for students who are looking for an internship or a job and for students who want to have an overview of the possibilities in the business.

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