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Whither political economy? Evaluating the CORE project as a response to calls for change in economics teaching (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Principles of Microeconomics - Scarcity and Social Provisioning (2017)
Book
Dean, E., Elardo, J., Green, M., Wilson, B., & Berger, S. (2017). Principles of Microeconomics - Scarcity and Social Provisioning. Pressbooks - Open Oregon Educational Resources

Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning takes a pluralistic approach to the standard topics of an introductory microeconomics course. The text builds on the chiefly neoclassical material of the OpenStax Principles of Economics... Read More about Principles of Microeconomics - Scarcity and Social Provisioning.

Dichtung und Wirtschaft - oder: Die (Brief-)Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter Ernst Wiechert und dem Okonomen Karl William Kapp (2017)
Book
Berger, S. (2017). Dichtung und Wirtschaft - oder: Die (Brief-)Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter Ernst Wiechert und dem Okonomen Karl William Kapp. Traugott Bautz Verlag

This book argues for a poetic economics as an alternative to neoliberal economics. This argument is supported with a case study of archival documents on the inspirational friendship between the poet Ernst Wiechert and the economist K. Wm. Kapp.

Poetic Economics and Experiential Knowledge, or How the Economist K. William Kapp Was Inspired by the Poet Ernst Wiechert (2015)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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?.