I just received this, which others may find interesting, Apologies of
you've already seen it,
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All the best,
John
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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:40:14 -0500
From: "Susan MacDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: EH.T: Join Klamer, McCloskey, and Ziliak in an economic
conversation
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Dear Colleagues,
I invite you to check out an unusually open-handed and pluralistic
conversation about the principles of economics at
www.theeconomicconversation.com .
The web site exists as a means to nurture and grow an already worldwide
community of teachers and students observant of the facts that there is
more than one way to think about the economy and that a fair and public
hearing of those alternative ways is crucial to the health of the
economic conversation.
This is not a fly-by-night blog. Your contributions to the site will
be considered for use in a forthcoming micro/macro textbook, The
Economic Conversation, by Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, and Stephen
Ziliak (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2008).
A full-year introduction to micro and macro, The Economic Conversation
presents the tools and principles as does any good textbook. But a
fourth to a third of every chapter is in dialogue form, Socratic
dialogue, just like a real economic conversation. The idea is to
simulate a real classroom, a real seminar room, a real conversation.
Inspired by educators such as Paolo Freire, bell hooks, John Dewey, and
Jane Tompkins, the authors of The Economic Conversation reflect the
pluralistic and dialogic spirit of the community. McCloskey is a
Chicago School free-marketeer, though recently also a progressive
Christian and a postmodern literary type, too. Klamer is an evolving
European social democrat. Ziliak is actively committed to racial and
social justice, leaning towards the market for some solutions and
towards the state for others. Each of the authors is an
internationally recognized expert in "the rhetoric of economics," too.
Participants in the textbook dialogues are the authors themselves,
joined by four students and the occasional "guest lecturer."
And that is where you come in. The Economic Conversation wants to
practice what it preaches. The authors have grown increasingly
frustrated with the hundreds of Samuelsonian knock-offs. They want
their book to reflect the actual richness of the economic conversation.
So they need to hear from you.
How are the conversations working? What is going right and what is not?
What should they add or delete? Please tell. Frustrated neoclassicals,
feminists and libertarians, empirical Marxists and post-modern
Keynesians, and everyone in between: your contribution is crucial.
The authors think their book provides a solution to the problem of
teaching economics in liberal arts programs and anywhere that critical
thinking is said to be valued.
The economic conversation is too important to be left where it is in
most economic textbooks: in a state of neglect, we agree.
Sincerely,
Susan B. MacDonald
Program Administrator
www.theeconomicconversation.com
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Susan B. MacDonald
70-5 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA US
617.868.4532
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www.susanmacd.com
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