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Invitation to participate

In our new project http://debt-issues.blog.rosalux.de/2012/05/28/invitation-to-participate/

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http://ifg.rosalux.de/files/2011/12/RLF-Intro2.pdf – Ali Douai http://ifg.rosalux.de/files/2011/12/fow-Ecological-Economics-and-the-Critical-Theory-of-Modern-Society-10-2011.pdf – Frieder Otto Wolf http://ifg.rosalux.de/files/2011/12/RLF-2011-281020111.pdf – Judy Brown

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I. The role of science related to the government and the society How does neoclassical economies relate to the system of representative democracy and the need for decision makers to have clear evidence that their policies are efficient? “Sustainability economics” or “economics for a sustainable society”? i. e. look at ideas of sustainable societies, local […]

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Reasons for the Attractiveness of Neoclassical Economics Yes, Joachim Spangenberg is certainly right when – with Christian Arnsperger and Yanis Varoufakis in mind – he points to methodological individualism, methodological instrumentalism and the methodological equilibrium axiom. And of course I completely agree with Peter Söderbaum when he stresses the historical background of neoclassical economics. Another […]

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In relation to the first question, I see neoclassical economics’ strength based on two pillars. The first pillar relates to the fact that science, knowledge, technology, social organisation and environment have all co-evolved around fossil hydrocarbons in such a way that it gave neoclassical framework a particular advantage. Above all, our technological basis has been […]

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Peter Söderbaum: Introduction

Please see: http://ifg.rosalux.de/files/2011/10/RLF28October2011S%C3%B6derbaumIntroductory-remarks13.pdf (Because of a technical mismanagement you have to copy the link and to pave it into the web address line.)

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Please see: http://ifg.rosalux.de/files/2011/10/Why-neoclassical-economics-is-attractive1.pdf Workshop introduction  Adam Smith as a pluralist and/or institutionalist The constructs Smith set forth and later developed by his successors largely define how we meet “needs” and what we value and discount. Of all the constructs we use in the course of our work, this economic model is clearly the most powerful. […]

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1.       What makes neoclassical economics attractive? What are its strengths based on? First issue to be discussed: Is it at all important to discuss alternative economic theories? Why not use a more direct approach to present environmental and other problems followed by proposals for action? Sustainability issues can no doubt be approached in many ways […]

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I do think that “the reason why”, we “are still in the political defensive”, lies – in so far it is a cognitive and not just a power problem – in the fact that we have not dug deep enough in our own questions. We are not up against a body of ideas which are […]

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The work of Professor Peter Söderbaum has inspired many, which the coming workshop is proving. I am grateful to Professor Söderbaum for fostering the openness to conduct a dialogue among existing paradigms and an open-minded treatment of the subject matter, that inspires my own research. I would like to address and highlight four of the […]

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