Comments on: The Mint is listening to… Sophie Adamson 21, Third Year Economics and Philosophy https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-mint-is-listening-to-sophie-adamson-21-third-year-economics-and-philosophy/ Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Adrian Edwards https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-mint-is-listening-to-sophie-adamson-21-third-year-economics-and-philosophy/#comment-29533 Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:58:05 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=27358#comment-29533 Fascinating. No wonder we are not producing many young economists prepared to challenge the dead hand of orthodox, Monetarist, regressive economic dogma, if students are not given the help to look at the big issues of macroeconomics.
I’m not a conventional econ student, btw. I’m a 71-yr-old who has just completed MMT101x Modern Monetary Theory- Economics for the 21st Century, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. This shows how economics can look at the big picture, with all its social and geo-political implications.

]]> By: David Harold Chester https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-mint-is-listening-to-sophie-adamson-21-third-year-economics-and-philosophy/#comment-24104 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:08:51 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=27358#comment-24104 Macroeconomics is more interesting than microeconomics because it attempts to deal with matters of a more profound nature and on a greater scale. I think it would be better if the universities applied this policy of teaching it first, instead of weeding out those students who cannot manage the finer points of micro- at the beginning. I suggest that a new student should read some of my writings about macro- in order to get a bit of interest fired-up.

SSRN 2865771 is a short paper explaining how to model the Big Picture in the most logical way and it includes the most simple yet fully comprehensive model, unlike the oversimplified one usually shown today.
SSRN 2600103 is slightly longer with photographs of a mechanical model (for mechanically minded students) who would like to see how our social system actually works,

]]> By: Mike Wistow https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-mint-is-listening-to-sophie-adamson-21-third-year-economics-and-philosophy/#comment-24093 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 12:52:10 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=27358#comment-24093 A really interesting article in that many years ago I swapped (part of) a University course from Economics to Philosophy because of the sheer technicality, boredom and lack of interest in what I was presented. At the time I thought, as it were, it was me – but, noting that I’ve maintained a, very broad, interest in economics, the article has made me reflect that there may have been other factors in play.

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