The abstraction from nature’s life-support
functions and from social power relations, the view of
human motivations, the focus on optimality, and the
abstract modelling exercises constitute a basically
distorted worldview. The present dominance of the
neoclassical paradigm contributes to the legitimization
of policies that are seriously detrimental to the poor
and destroy ecosystems and life conditions for other
species to serve the short-term interests of the richest
fifth of the world’s population. Therefore, it is an
urgent task for academics to undermine and uproot the
basic understanding that allows such legitimization,
and it is decisive to provide alternative understandings
for new generations, not least in relation to the education of economists (sharing to a large extent the program of the movement for post-autistic
economics, see www.paecon.net). As this task has a
long time horizon and will entail deep conflicts, the
adherents of the perspective also try to influence
present policies, but they try to do so without
compromising their long-term ideas.
The abstraction from nature’s life-supportfunctions and from social power relations, the view ofhuman motivations, the focus on optimality, and theabstract modelling exercises constitute a basicallydistorted worldview. The present dominance of theneoclassical paradigm contributes to the legitimizationof policies that are seriously detrimental to the poorand destroy ecosystems and life conditions for otherspecies to serve the short-term interests of the richestfifth of the world’s population. Therefore, it is anurgent task for academics to undermine and uproot thebasic understanding that allows such legitimization,and it is decisive to provide alternative understandingsfor new generations, not least in relation to the education of economists (sharing to a large extent the program of the movement for post-autisticeconomics, see www.paecon.net). As this task has along time horizon and will entail deep conflicts, theadherents of the perspective also try to influencepresent policies, but they try to do so withoutcompromising their long-term ideas.
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