Bad economic teaching

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https://theconversation.com/why-the-world-is-due-a-revolution-in-economics-education-112785

How economic theory is disentangles with the social actors that drive it.

Sidelining politics, history and broader ideas while teaching economics, as most professors do, is like studying the “natural” flows of water in the Netherlands without taking into account that there are people living there who are steering it, building dikes, reclaiming land and channelling the water – and ignoring that they have been doing this for thousands of years already. You can’t study the system while ignoring the people who make it.

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