What is Heterodox Economics?: Conversations with Leading Economists
(2019)
Book
Berger, S., Mearman, A., & Guizzo, D. (2019). What is Heterodox Economics?: Conversations with Leading Economists. Taylor & Francis
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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)
Journal Article
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 978-0-691-17668-0Cents 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)
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/10.1080/09538259.2018.1426682This 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.
Towards a poetic economics: Studies in Ezra Pound's Poetry with a Hammer (2018)
Book Chapter
Berger, S. (2018). Towards a poetic economics: Studies in Ezra Pound's Poetry with a Hammer. In R. Luefter, & R. Preda (Eds.), A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Economic Thought. Traugott Bautz VerlagN/A
The knowledge we have lost in information – the history of information in modern economics, by Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah, ISBN 9780190270056 (2018)
Journal Article
Berger, S. (2018). The knowledge we have lost in information – the history of information in modern economics, by Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah, ISBN 9780190270056This is a book review.
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)
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Dean, E., Elardo, J., Green, M., Wilson, B., & Berger, S. (2017). Principles of Microeconomics - Scarcity and Social Provisioning. Pressbooks - Open Oregon Educational ResourcesPrinciples 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.
The Social Costs of Neoliberalism - Essays on the Economics of K. William Kapp (2017)
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Berger, S. (2017). The Social Costs of Neoliberalism - Essays on the Economics of K. William Kapp. Nottingham: SpokesmanThis book presents essays on the economics of KW Kapp.
Dichtung und Wirtschaft - oder: Die (Brief-)Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter Ernst Wiechert und dem Okonomen Karl William Kapp (2017)
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Berger, S. (2017). Dichtung und Wirtschaft - oder: Die (Brief-)Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter Ernst Wiechert und dem Okonomen Karl William Kapp. Traugott Bautz VerlagThis 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.
Social costs and the psychology of neoclassical economists (2016)
Book Chapter
Berger, S. (2016). Social costs and the psychology of neoclassical economists. In T. Heinrich, H. Schwardt, & C. Gräbner (Eds.), Policy Implications of Recent Advances in Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. London/New York: RoutledgeEssays in honor of Wolfram Elsner
The Heterodox Theory of Social Costs (2015)
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Kapp, K. W. (2015). S. Berger (Ed.), The Heterodox Theory of Social Costs. Routledge
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.
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.
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.12040This 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.xHayek 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?.
The Foundations of Institutional Economics (2011)
Book
Berger, S. (2011). The Foundations of Institutional Economics. RoutledgeThis book is about the foundations of institutional economics.
The Foundations of Non-equilibrium Economics (2009)
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Berger, S. (2009). The Foundations of Non-equilibrium Economics. RoutledgeThis book deals with the foundations of non-equilibrium economics.
Der Europaeische Institutionalismus (2007)
Book
Berger, S. (2007). Der Europaeische Institutionalismus. Peter Lang VerlagEuropean Institutionalism
Curriculum reform in UK economics: A critique
Working Paper
Mearman, A., Berger, S., & Guizzo, D. (2016). Curriculum reform in UK economics: A critiqueThis paper offers a multi-dimensional critique of recent reforms to UK Economics curricular frameworks. The paper assesses the reforms in terms of their extent and the positions taken within them on their approach to economics, treatment of politics,... Read More about Curriculum reform in UK economics: A critique.