News Archives - PEP - Promoting Economic Pluralism https://economicpluralism.org/category/news/ PEP is promoting economic pluralism in teaching, research and analysis to support better policy to tackle economic, social and environmental challenges Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:29:52 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://economicpluralism.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png News Archives - PEP - Promoting Economic Pluralism https://economicpluralism.org/category/news/ 32 32 How fifty years of the ‘Nobel Prize’ in Economics redrew our map of society https://economicpluralism.org/how-fifty-years-of-the-nobel-prize-in-economics-redrew-our-map-of-society/ https://economicpluralism.org/how-fifty-years-of-the-nobel-prize-in-economics-redrew-our-map-of-society/#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2019 06:05:20 +0000 https://economicpluralism.org/?p=3794 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

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]]> https://economicpluralism.org/how-fifty-years-of-the-nobel-prize-in-economics-redrew-our-map-of-society/feed/ 0 Outrage at corruption drove the reformation 500 years ago, couldn’t similar outrage drive a modern economic reformation? https://economicpluralism.org/outrage-at-corruption-drove-the-reformation-500-years-ago-couldnt-similar-outrage-drive-a-modern-economic-reformation/ https://economicpluralism.org/outrage-at-corruption-drove-the-reformation-500-years-ago-couldnt-similar-outrage-drive-a-modern-economic-reformation/#comments Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:13:57 +0000 https://economicpluralism.org/?p=2824 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

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]]> https://economicpluralism.org/outrage-at-corruption-drove-the-reformation-500-years-ago-couldnt-similar-outrage-drive-a-modern-economic-reformation/feed/ 1 UK economics establishment to “‘revolutionise’ how we study the economy” or not? https://economicpluralism.org/uk-economics-establishment-to-revolutionise-how-we-study-the-economy-or-not/ https://economicpluralism.org/uk-economics-establishment-to-revolutionise-how-we-study-the-economy-or-not/#respond Sun, 23 Apr 2017 06:29:02 +0000 https://economicpluralism.org/?p=2830 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

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