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Manufacturing ‘Economics’ Minds: Ideology, Authority, and Economics Education
What do economics students learn – beyond models and methods? This new study examines how economics education shapes students’ beliefs, biases, and openness to competing ideas. Drawing on a large randomised controlled experiment with economics students across 10 countries, the authors investigate how exposure to different framings and […]
Thursday 1 May 2025
UK National Report: Is Economics Education Fit for the 21st Century?
The first quarter of the 21st century has seen seismic shifts in the politics, society and economy of the United Kingdom. As economics thinkers and graduates, Rethinking Economics is concerned that economics education remains out of step with these shifts. What is taught in university […]
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Is Economics Education Fit for the 21st Century?
This report is the most comprehensive study of economics education at the University of Manchester, since the release of PCES’s previous report, Economics, Education and Unlearning, in 2014. They have worked with Rethinking Economics England and Wales to analyse their education in the context of some of […]
Wednesday 1 May 2024
Economics is Failing US College Students
Research showing the disconnect between Economics curricula and the societal and economic issues students are most concerned about.
Saturday 1 October 2022
Research Note: Geographical Distribution in Climate Economics Publications
The majority of the most climate vulnerable populations in the world are located geographically in countries in the Global South. However, research and policy discussions on climate change often exclude knowledge produced by scholars from such regions. This research note investigates the extent to which […]
Monday 1 November 2021
Economics Journals’ engagement in the planetary emergency: A misallocation of resources?
The planetary emergency is an intellectual and humanitarian challenge that urgently warrants a significant amount of research attention from the economics profession. Is this happening? To answer this question, this paper assesses the number of articles in the top 300 economics journals that are about […]
Thursday 1 April 2021