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The Power of Ideas. The Teaching of Economics and its Image of Man

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dc.creator Silja Graupe
dc.date 2012-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:17:51Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:17:51Z
dc.identifier 1611-9665
dc.identifier 1618-5293
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/c1ea2d2036f84dc9a4408acab49df460
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/19202
dc.description Economics as a science not only investigates what is (as a positive science) and what should be (as a normative science), but influences, through its fundamental ideas, what facts and norms are recognized as such in society. This holds especially true for economic education. My article explains this thesis and elaborates, in particular, how this form of education stipulates a particular vision of human beings worldwide. First, I show how economics actively seeks to influence the inscription of the commonplace image of the human through economics education. Second, I discuss economics as a textbook science in Thomas Kuhn’s sense: as a science incapable of giving the students any plural or critical understanding of their self and the world. In the third step, I identify the essential features of the human image lying at the base of the economic curriculum; an image (so I argue), which splits society into mere cogs in the machine of the economy on the one side and omnipotent social engineers on the other side.
dc.language English
dc.language German
dc.publisher Bielefeld University
dc.relation http://www.jsse.org/2012/2012-2/pdf/Graupe-JSSE-2-2012.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1611-9665
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1618-5293
dc.source Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 60-83 (2012)
dc.subject Critique of Economics
dc.subject economic education
dc.subject textbook science
dc.subject historical amnesia
dc.subject image of man
dc.subject mechanistic worldview
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Social sciences (General)
dc.subject H1-99
dc.subject Social Sciences
dc.subject H
dc.title The Power of Ideas. The Teaching of Economics and its Image of Man
dc.type article


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