Network Plural Economics

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Network Plural Economics
(NWPÖ)
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legal form Registered association
founding November 24, 2007
Seat Heidelberg
purpose The Plural Economics Network promotes and demands self-criticism, reflection and openness in economics
Chair Yannik Beermann, Elena Goschin, Andreas Jaumann, Eva Lickert, Anna Reisch, Henri Schneider
Members 503 people
35 associated groups
(as of November 2019)
Website plurale-oekonomik.de

The Network Plural Economics is an umbrella organization active in Germany , Austria and Switzerland for over 30 initiatives of the Plural Economics movement . The association criticizes the state of research and teaching in economics and, according to its own statements , promotes reflection , self-criticism and openness in economics and other disciplines that deal with society. The network and its affiliated initiatives promote scientific conferences for interdisciplinary exchange between the formative neoclassical theory and heterodox schools as well as curricular courses at universities on these topics.

The legal form is the registered association , the seat of the association is Heidelberg .

history

In November 2003, students, scientists and entrepreneurs from Germany, increasingly from Heidelberg , Berlin and Regensburg , founded the “Working Group on Postautical Economics”. This served for the exchange and the organization of lecture series and weekend seminars.

On November 24th, 2007 the working group was established as a registered association with the full name “Arbeitskreis Postautistische Ökonomik e. V. “legally enshrined. In 2012 the general assembly decided to rename the association to its current name.

In September 2012, a “supplementary conference ” was organized for the first time parallel to the annual conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS) in Göttingen . 50 speakers, u. a. Peter Bofinger's economic approach , financial market researcher Max Otte and cabaret artist Frank-Markus Barwasser spoke about topics that found too little or no space at the annual conference. The conference was documented by the video project ecapio.

The supplementary conference with over 40 speakers took place again in 2015 parallel to the VfS annual conference in Münster . Prominent economists such as Carl Christian von Weizsäcker , the labor market researcher Dennis Snower and the macroeconomist Rüdiger Bachmann spoke out in favor of a greater integration of pluralistic views in upcoming annual meetings based on the model of the American Allied Social Sciences Association .

In May 2014 the "International Student Initiative for Pluralist Economics (ISIPE)", which includes 40 other student groups from 19 countries in addition to the network, published an open letter. The signatories call for theoretical and methodological plurality as well as interdisciplinarity .

Since July 2020, the Plurale Ökonomik network has been officially working with Rethinking Economics , which is itself part of ISIPE.

criticism

According to Joachim Weimann , himself a critic of the concept of Homo oeconomicus , the representatives of the plural economists “do not master the language and methods of economists” although “they constantly criticize them”. They would want to "shoot economics by storm".

Positions

The common denominator of all the initiatives brought together under the umbrella of the network is pluralism in civil society , politics and business as well as academic disciplines.

The network calls for the recognition, promotion, teaching and application of all branches of heterodox economy apart from neoclassical theory : institutional , post-Keynesian , Marxist , ecological and Austrian as well as socialist , feminist and other socio-economic approaches and theories.

The network calls for a loosening of the "mathematical-reductionist models". The supposedly one-sided focus on quantitative methods is criticized. Qualitative methods should gain more recognition and be used more. New hermeneutics are also required.

In March 2016, the network presented a study in which 57 Bachelor's degree programs in economics were examined for their reflectivity.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.plurale-oekonomik.de/impressum/
  2. ↑ Goals and Activities. Network Plural Economics, accessed April 1, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The history of the network. Network Plural Economics, accessed April 1, 2016 .
  4. ^ Olaf Storbeck: Critical economists among themselves. In: handelsblatt.com. Handelsblatt , September 7, 2012, accessed April 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ ecapio: video documentation of a plurale supplementary event for the VfS annual conference 2012. In: ecapio - We spread lectures. Common Future eV, September 9, 2012, accessed on June 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Bert Losse: "We are not wanted". In: Wirtschaftswoche . August 27, 2015, accessed April 1, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Norbert Häring: "Emotions are neglected". In: handelsblatt.com. Handelsblatt , September 9, 2015, accessed on April 1, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Johannes Pennekamp: Bachmanns Tagungsgeflüster (5): What does mainstream mean here? In: FAZ business blog . September 14, 2015, accessed April 1, 2016 .
  9. ↑ International student appeal for plural economics. (PDF; 49.7 kB) Network Plurale Ökonomik, May 4, 2014, accessed on April 1, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Philip Inman: Economics students call for shakeup of the way their subject is taught. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , May 4, 2014, accessed April 1, 2016 .
  11. ^ Member Groups. International Student Initiative for Pluralism in Economics, archived from the original on March 11, 2020 ; accessed on July 12, 2020 (English).
  12. ↑ Philip Plickert: VWL: Attack on the economists mainstream. FAZ , December 3, 2016, accessed on December 3, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Philip Plickert: Universities student initiative complains about one-sided economics studies . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 23, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 26, 2016]).