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Theory
and Education Program
Mission
| Educational Materials
| Advancing Economic Theory | Staff
Economic
Theory Books and Articles
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Textbooks
| Teaching
Modules
Mission:
To advance
the theory, teaching and application of an economic
understanding which will serve the essential goals
of humanity – goals that must include the fostering
of equitable societies in sustainable ecological surroundings.
We start from the assumption that the most valid
goals of economic activity are to improve human wellbeing
by enhancing the viability and health of humanity's
social and physical environments. We believe that
economic theory as presently taught by most economists,
and the policies that proceed from it, are not sufficiently
oriented to those goals. Accordingly, GDAE Theory
and Education researchers are working:
- to contribute to the development
of an economic theory that is appropriate to the
needs and realities of human societies in the twenty-first
century;
- to assist other new thinkers
who are working toward the same end;
- and to shorten the time-lag
between the emergence of valuable new understandings
and their use in teaching and in policy-making.
Educational
Materials
Textbooks | Teaching
Modules
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Social Science Library
| Instructor Support
We seek to
improve economics education by providing a variety
of classroom-ready materials that can help deepen
and broaden the ways in which economics and related
disciplines are taught at the undergraduate college
level. These
include major textbooks on the principles of economics and environmental
economics. Free, downloadable teaching
modules are available that can be used within a course, and scholars in developing countries will soon be able to take advantage of the Social Science Library. We also provide instructor support through text supplements, working papers, and a book on on teaching critical thinking in high school economics.
Advancing Economic Theory
GDAE seeks to develop approaches to economic theory that give appropriate weight to ecological, cultural, social, and institutional factors. We call economics that takes account of humanity's
social and physical environments "contextual economics."
For more on this approach, you can browse the
following items:
Staff
The professional staff of GDAE's Theory and Education
Program include Jonathan Harris (Program Director),
Neva R.
Goodwin, Julie
A. Nelson, Brian Roach.
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