Financial, Economic and Political Crises - Carrying Social Science Education on as Before?

Abstract: This issue of the Journal of Social Science Education deals with the financial and economic crises, its causes and the consequences which could be drawn for civic and economic education. As far as economic and civic educators are expected to behave like communicators of established scientific knowledge received from economics or political science, they also are hit by the crisis of these two disciplines which is induced by their severe shortcomings in the crisis. The conventional wisdom of economics or of political science failed to provide an early warning system of potentially dangerous institutions, policies or outcomes. On the contrary, among the main causes of the financial crisis and its political and economic failures are: policy recommendations delivered by the Chicago school of economics, beliefs and decisions of the economic and political elites encouraged by mainstream economics and economic liberalism, and, last but not least, an increasing self-restraint of the state t.... http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/501

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Financial, Economic and Political Crises - Carrying Social Science Education on as Before? ; volume:9 ; number:1 ; day:12 ; month:07 ; year:2010 ; Journal of social science education ; 9, Heft 1 (12.07.2010)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Hedtke, Reinhold

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.4119/jsse-501
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019011815453334959437
• Rechteinformation: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 10:48 MESZ