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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Student discontent, teaching economics, and Robin Wells's suggestions for shifting our perspective: A historical case

Nov 20, 2011

On November 2nd, I was sitting in the Hayden Library Special Collection reading room at MIT, browsing archives on the undergraduate and graduate students’ discontent during the early 70s and the response of the economics department faculty.

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Toxic Textbooks

Nov 7, 2011

The Toxic Textbooks movement devotes energy to curriculum reform as well. Its purpose is to galvanize student protests and “encourage schools and universities to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world.”

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Does Economics blogging open new conversations ? (Part I)

Nov 3, 2011

This is the question I’m supposed to answer for an experimental INET conference aimed at inspiring new thinking through interdisciplinary conversation and collective reflection without rules.