28 October 2004

Sorbonne curriculum change as a result of pressure

Issue no. 28 of the Post-Autistic Economics Review "There has been a PAE reform of the economics curriculum at the Sorbonne (Paris I)
“At our university (the leading one for economics in France) we have succeeded in cutting back the programs of micro, macro and maths, something that would have been inconceivable a few years ago. This is in the aid of an approach more open, more multidisciplinary. The ‘orthodoxes’ have rather easily given way, having, despite everything, interiorized the arguments advanced against them. In the colloquiums and in the press they feel obliged to justify what they do, thereby admitting at least in part the aptness of the ‘anti autistes’ criticisms.” Bernard Guerrien"

This is quietly very significant, imho. Perhaps, also this is the way it needs to be done so that economist [or whoever] are trained into ways that suit what we are learning about the way things are rather than the way that certain theories say they should be ...

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