Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught

Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught

Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it reshaping economists’ education As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a group of students at Harvard University in the US walked out of their introductory economics class complaining it was teaching a “specific and limited view” that perpetuated “a problematic and inefficient system of economic inequality”. A few weeks later, on the othe…