Our reading this week was “Ethics in Economics” by Charles Wilber from the PAE Review. Some Q’s: 1) How would our educations/textbooks change with the acknowledgment of value-permeation and the always “theory-laden” character of any analysis? 2) How does the policy conversation change? 3) What are the implications of seeing mainstream economic theory (or any [...]
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Weekly Meeting 01/22/09
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Meeting: December 2, 2008
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The article from this week’s discussion: Wendell Berry “The Idea of a Local Economy” Some questions to consider: 1) Where are the boundaries of “local”? 2) Can the ethical imperative gleaned from a local economy be applied on a global scale? 3) What are the possibilities of a hybrid model?
