Want to get more perspectives on economics? This Saturday afternoon you will be enlightened through a practical workshop.

This mainly is an event for oikos Copenhagen members, but if are part of another student organisation or similar, we would love to me you and get your perspective in the workshop! Feel free to join as a small group.

We are flying in our oikos Associate and pluralist economics expert J. Christopher Proctor to conduct a workshop for us. His workshop was really popular at the oikos FutureLab this year, and we are sure you will enjoy it as well! We will have a social event afterwards for those who want to stick around.

About the workshop:

Economics and business degrees typically only introduce students to a single way of doing economics. The theories and methods found in standard economics courses (often called mainstream or neoclassical economics) are one helpful way to think about the economy. But they are by no means the only way. Students around the world have begun to demand more from their economics degree, asking to be given the tools to think critically about the major economic problems facing our generation. This workshop will introduce students to the world of “economic pluralism”—the idea that economics students should be taught a wide range of economic ideas and theories—by highlighting key insights from a number of different economic schools of thought and showing participants how these diverse theories can be applied to real world economic issues.

About Proctor:

J.Christopher Proctor is the oikos Pluralist Economics Associate. He studied Economics, Political Science and History at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA) before enrolling in the Economic Policies in the Age of Globalization Master program at Kingston University London and the University of Paris 13. He is an active organizer with Rethinking Economics, a student movement campaigning to improve and invigorate economics, and is a co-editor of the forthcoming book Rethinking Economics: An introduction to pluralist economics. His academic interests are varied, and include economic history, economics of higher education, transition economics, and Keynesian macroeconomics.

Check out the book here: http://www.rethinkeconomics.org/projects/rethinking-textbook/