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Karl Polanyi’'s and K. William Kapp’'s arguments on social costs: Is there a common “revolutionary” raison d’'être? (2024)
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Berger, S. (2024). Karl Polanyi’'s and K. William Kapp’'s arguments on social costs: Is there a common “revolutionary” raison d’'être?. Ecological Economics, 219, Article 108131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108131

This article examines Karl Polanyi's and K. William Kapp's social cost proposals to test their suitability for a “revolutionary” Social Ecological Economics that radically breaks with neoclassical and neoliberal paradigms. Whilst some coherence is re... Read More about Karl Polanyi’'s and K. William Kapp’'s arguments on social costs: Is there a common “revolutionary” raison d’'être?.

What is heterodox economics? Insights from interviews with leading thinkers (2023)
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Mearman, A., Berger, S., & Guizzo, D. (2023). What is heterodox economics? Insights from interviews with leading thinkers. Journal of Economic Issues, 57(4), 1119-1141

This article investigates heterodox economics, drawing on data from interviews we conducted with leading economists, using thematic analysis to identify three core concerns of our respondents: realism, power, and pluralism. Heterodox economists appea... Read More about What is heterodox economics? Insights from interviews with leading thinkers.

How different is heterodox economists' thinking on teaching?: A contrastive evaluation of interview data (2021)
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Mearman, A., Berger, S., & Guizzo, D. (2022). How different is heterodox economists' thinking on teaching?: A contrastive evaluation of interview data. Review of Political Economy, 34(1), 45-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2020.1869402

This paper explores how differently heterodox and mainstream economists think about teaching. It draws on data from interviews with sixteen leading heterodox economists, which we analyse according to the principles of thematic analysis. We find consi... Read More about How different is heterodox economists' thinking on teaching?: A contrastive evaluation of interview data.

Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth? (2020)
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Berger, S. (2020). Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth?. Journal of Economic Issues, 54(2), 525-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2020.1759021

© 2020, © 2020, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics. Abstract: This article critically examines the institutional economics theory of social costs by way of reviewing The Dark Places of Business Enterprise: Reinstating... Read More about Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth?.

‘TAMA’ economics under siege in Brazil: The threats of curriculum governance reform (2019)
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Guizzo, D., Mearman, A., & Berger, S. (2021). ‘TAMA’ economics under siege in Brazil: The threats of curriculum governance reform. Review of International Political Economy, 28(1), 258-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2019.1670716

This article considers the curriculum framework governing economics teaching in Brazilian higher education. We assess economics teaching according to three criteria: its pluralism or monism regarding economic theory and method; its treatment of econo... Read More about ‘TAMA’ economics under siege in Brazil: The threats of curriculum governance reform.

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0 (2018)
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Berger, S. (2018). Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0

Cents and sensibility – what economics can learn from the humanities, by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, Princeton University Press: 2017, pp. 307; ISBN 978-0-691-17668-0

Whither political economy? Evaluating the CORE project as a response to calls for change in economics teaching (2018)
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Mearman, A., Guizzo, D., & Berger, S. (2018). Whither political economy? Evaluating the CORE project as a response to calls for change in economics teaching. Review of Political Economy, 30(2), 241-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2018.1426682

This article offers a critique of a major recent initiative in economics teaching: the CORE project. CORE emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis, which was also something of a crisis for economics. The article deploys four evaluative crit... Read More about Whither political economy? Evaluating the CORE project as a response to calls for change in economics teaching.

Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement (2018)
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Mearman, A., Guizzo, D., & Berger, S. (2018). Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement. Review of Social Economy, 76(3), 377-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2018.1463447

© 2018, © 2018 The Association for Social Economics. This paper evaluates the recent reform to the curricular governance framework for UK Economics teaching: the revised Subject Benchmark Statement document for Economics (SBSE). The crisis of confide... Read More about Is UK economics teaching changing? Evaluating the new subject benchmark statement.

Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region (2017)
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Webber, D. J., Webber, G. A., Berger, S., & Bradley, P. (2018). Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region. Environment and Planning A, 50(1), 157-174. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17735103

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Productivity is the preferred measure of firm-level efficiency and perceived to reflect resource use rates. Semi-structured interviews with restaurant managers in a tourism-dominated low productivity rural area reveal th... Read More about Explaining productivity in a poor productivity region.

Poetic Economics and Experiential Knowledge, or How the Economist K. William Kapp Was Inspired by the Poet Ernst Wiechert (2015)
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Berger, S. (2015). Poetic Economics and Experiential Knowledge, or How the Economist K. William Kapp Was Inspired by the Poet Ernst Wiechert. Journal of Economic Issues, 49(3), 730-748. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2015.1071979

© 2015 Journal of Economics Issues/Association for Evolutionary Economics. In the first part of this article, I analyze the phenomenon of the "double truth" in economics, which suppresses experiential knowledge and leads to the destruction of the nat... Read More about Poetic Economics and Experiential Knowledge, or How the Economist K. William Kapp Was Inspired by the Poet Ernst Wiechert.

K. William kapp’s social theory of social costs (2015)
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Berger, S. (2015). K. William kapp’s social theory of social costs. History of Political Economy, 47(S1), 227-252. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-3130523

© 2015 by Duke University Press. This article deals with the theory of social costs by K. William Kapp, as outlined in his book The Social Costs of Private Enterprise (1950). This work is a continuation of the socialist calculation debate, in which K... Read More about K. William kapp’s social theory of social costs.

The making of the institutional theory of social costs: Discovering the K. W. Kapp and J. M. Clark Correspondence (2013)
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Berger, S. (2013). The making of the institutional theory of social costs: Discovering the K. W. Kapp and J. M. Clark Correspondence. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 72(5), 1106-1130. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12040

This article reconstructs the making of the often "overlooked" institutional theory of social costs based on the unexploited correspondence between John Maurice Clark and Karl William Kapp. The reconstruction demonstrates that the institutional argum... Read More about The making of the institutional theory of social costs: Discovering the K. W. Kapp and J. M. Clark Correspondence.

Preventing the "Abuses" of Democracy: Hayek, the "Military Usurper" and Transitional Dictatorship in Chile? (2012)
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Farrant, A., Mcphail, E., & Berger, S. (2012). Preventing the "Abuses" of Democracy: Hayek, the "Military Usurper" and Transitional Dictatorship in Chile?. American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 71(3), 513-538. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.2012.00824.x

Hayek famously claimed that he would prefer a "liberal" dictator to "democratic government lacking in liberalism." While Hayek's views of the Pinochet regime have generated much controversy, surprisingly little has been written about Hayek's defense... Read More about Preventing the "Abuses" of Democracy: Hayek, the "Military Usurper" and Transitional Dictatorship in Chile?.