Exploring Economics, an open-access e-learning platform, giving you the opportunity to discover & study a variety of economic theories, topics, and methods. 2019 Level: advanced Marx's approach to economics: a claim for subjective praxis Clara Mattei New School for Social Research, Department of Economics “Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses1.” This is how Lionel Robbins came to define economics in the early 1930s and there is a good chance that many of you heard a variant of this definition in your first Economics 101 lecture. 2021 Level: beginner What is “Economics”? Anas Abu Exploring Economics This syllabus provides an overview of the content of the Philosophy and Economics course at the University of Waterloo. 2019 Level: beginner Philosophy and Economics Patricia Marino University of Waterloo Department of Philosophy This syllabus provides an overview of the contents of the course "Understanding Economic Models" at the University of Helsinki. 2018 Level: beginner Understanding Economic Models N. Emrah Aydinonat, Michiru Nagatsu University of Helsinki This syllabus provides an overview of the content of the Philosophy of Economics course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2015 Level: beginner Philosophy of Economics Dan Hausman University of Wisconsin-Madison This syllabus provides an overview of the contents of the course "The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics" at the Duke University 2022 Level: beginner The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics Kevin Hoover Duke University Making sense of economists and their world in a persuasive and entertaining style, Arjo Klamer, shows that economics is as much about how people interact as it is about the models, the mathematics, the econometrics, the theories and the ideas that come from the enormous aggregate of economics literature. Knowing and understanding economics requires both bookwork and mingling with other economists. 2007 Level: advanced Speaking of Economics Arjo Klamer Routledge This collection of previously published and new papers is a major intervention in the on-going debate about the nature and future of economics. Instead of the present deductivist-formalist orientation of mainstream economics, Lars Syll advocates for the adoption of a more pluralist approach to economics, arguing for more realism and relevance with less insistence on mathematical modeling. 2016 Level: advanced On the Use and Misuse of Theories and Models in Mainstream Economics Lars Palsson Syll College Publications Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics introduces to the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered. 2013 Level: advanced Philosophy of Economics Julian Reiss Routledge The Philosophy of Economics Foundational Text provides a systematic and well-structured overview over the field of philosophy of economics. 2023 Level: beginner Philosophy of Economics Milena Dehn, Ella Needler and Jessica Palka Exploring Economics

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