Adbusters’ “Kick It Over” campaign
Here are the latest links in Adbuster’s “Kick It Over” campaign aimed at mobilizing students to work for a curriculum change in economics.
Kick It Over (Neoclassical Economics)
Deep in a recession and with scary ecological scenarios looming, now may be the ripest moment we’ll ever have to power-shift global capitalism onto a new path. Adbusters #85 asks economics students around the world to join the fight to revamp Econ 101 curriculums and challenge the endemic myopia of their tenured neoclassical profs. Read a few articles, download the Kick it Over Manifesto (and other posters) and whack them up in the corridors of your campus. Make sure your university is at the forefront of the paradigm shift from neoclassical to ecological economics now underway.
Real World Curriculum:
I – Paradigm Lost
A New Kind of Global Marketplace
What if we were to implement this one simple idea: true cost?The Delusion Revolution
The future we have been dreaming of is not based on reality.
Fulfillment Paradox
We consume three times more than our grandparents – why aren’t we happier?II – Fresh Perspectives
Can Economists Improve the Human Condition?
The Slow Food Revolt
The frenetic pace at which we’re forced to live disrupts our natural habits.
Whirlpools and Turbulent Flows
Post- Pythagorean Economics
Moving from cold, hard to fuzzy, nonlinear logic.
Confessions of a Radical Prof
I teach students to repudiate the false god of money and the prevailing economic religion of the market.
When the Going Gets Tough
Economists go very quiet.III – Meet the Mavericks
IV – Your Place in the Revolution
Hey G20: Slow Down Fast Money With the Tobin Tax
By focusing on regulation and bonuses, are world leaders missing the point?
The New Spirit of Economics
Economics is entering a Nietzschean period of creative destruction … tectonic mindshifts are underway.
Neocon Indoctrination – The Mankiw Way
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Real-World Economics Review Blog 
This is the kind of wide umbrella movement that can accommodate reform to achieve humanitarian, ecological, and innovative productivity goals, etc., with less chance of new orthodoxies screwing up our zeal for jobs and common sense now, On a far smaller scale, http://positivemoney.us seeks the same goals.
Attaboy! Moving in the right direction. Timidly though. Mavericks are not mavericking enough.
1) Masch is right.
2)I’m still missing things like health, inequality, poverty and the like. Economics is not about happiness. I’s about a small planet where too many people do not have the means and the surroundings to raise their children in a decent way – constraints which are however more often than not caused by their fellow brethren ans sistern
3) Whatever happened to measurements, observations, statistics, interviews, photographs and videos (surely a strong point of Adbusters magazine!)? That’s economics too! One of the manifest failures of neo-classical economics is measurement and observation. Neo classicals do use measurements based on other paradigms which, when push comes to play, do never fit the neo classical models, causing neo classicals to make all kind of ad hoc assumptions and making them use, surreptitiously, non-neo classical models when they really estimate models, welfare functions and Sen being a case in point. Key neo classical defined concepts can’t be measured: ‘Utility’, the individual marginal production of somebody working in a multi person organisations, capital – the list goes on, and on, and on. They even lack good definitions of money and the market. I mean: the monetary base in the USA more than doubled – and inflation went down. Try to eplain this using the neo-classical definition of money (it can however be explained when you see money as something which might become more and less liquid when the economic temperature drops and rises, which even can freeze, which is far from homogenous). Measurements (interviews) show that companies start to invest when there is money and when they see chances. As David Raithel mentioned at this blog: at this moment USA companies do have the cash – but they do not invest. This is perfectly compatible with the results of the interviews: they do not see chances. It’s not compatible with the neo classical Fantasia. To measure, you have to define things in a real world way. That has to be part and parcel of any education in economics
What about Martin Wolf’s challenge: why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics?
Because they mess up the math?