Exploring Economics was born in 2015, as the idea of a group of students and young scholars from the German-speaking Network for Plural Economics (Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik) which forms part of ISIPE, the international student mouvement for pluralism in economics. When the founders saw that their economic teaching at university had little to say about what they observed in their daily lives or in regards to global challenges such as rising inequalities, economic crises, climate change, they realised they had to create and compose a virtual university to provide the space for critical economic thinking they wished they had.

So that was why, some fiveteen students and young scholars joined together and started to meet in order to conceptualize a virtual university for plural economics. What started as a first informal scattered meeting, became a project with a heavy workload that incorporates many people. Thanks to the funding of a German public research institution, the Institute for Societal Advancement (FGW) and the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK), it was possible to employ a small team, to pay the coding of the webpage and eventually to launch the platform in December 2016 after a year of intense work.

What is the mission of the project team of Exploring Economics? To reach more students, lecturers and interested people in order to, eventually, change economic teaching into an economics where people and the planet actually matter.

Find out more at exploring-economics.org.

Exploring Economics in the media

2017
May, 15: Handelsblatt Orange online (German): Warum lerne ich in VWL so wenig über Wirtschaft? [ Why do I learn in economics so little about the economy?]
May, 14: WirtschaftsWoche online (German): Plurale Ökonomen. Neue Lehren für die Volkswirtschaft [Plural economist. New teaching for economics]
May, 11: DIE ZEIT (German): Denken können wir selbst! [translation: We can think ourselves!]
May, 9 taz (German): Bildungskanon an der Uni. Crowdfunding gegen Neoklassik [Curriculum at the university. Crowdfunding against neoclassic]
May, 5: Frankfurter Rundschau (German): Einseitige Lehre [The one-sideness of teaching]
May, 5: WirtschaftsWoche (German): Der Volkswirt (only print) [The economist]
March, 14: Blog Postwachstum (German): Vielfalt für den Wandel: Exploring Economics [Diversity for Change: Exploring Economics]

2016
December, 20: Institute for New Economic Thinking (English) : A New Tool for Teaching Pluralist Economics
December, 19: Netzpolitik (German): Plattform „Exploring Economics“ und Buch „Wirtschaft neu denken“: Offene Lernunterlagen für Öffnung der Ökonomie [Platform "Exploring Economics" and book "Rethinking the economy": Open learning materials for opening up the economy]

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