全球活动：Toxic Textbooks（有毒教材）－反对旧经济...

2009-05-27 16:15:29 来自: over(the rainbow)

这是一个由非主流经济学刊物 Real World Economics 倡导的全球性运动－Toxic Textbooks，针对最近经济危机下暴露出的旧的经济学范式解体的问题，呼吁全球各大学使用新的经济学教材以适应新的范式革命的到来！

现在大家可以去facebook上加入这个群，以反映我们支持这个运动的心声：

群地址是：

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=c437b1cc7032911e526cf290d5a1b8cd&gid=73911783278&ref=search



下面是该杂志写的活动倡议的内容：


A new movement (its manifesto is at the bottom of this message) is being launched to encourage universities and schools to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world. Recently several prominent economists, including Hodgson and Keen, have publicly called for worldwide student protest to help bring about serious change in academic economics, especially in teaching. Although the circumstances for this have never been so favourable, the problem is how to get protest started up to the point where it becomes self-sustaining and nationally and internationally contagious.

To this end a website

www.toxictextbooks.com has been set up and, more importantly, also a Facebook group

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=73911783278 named Toxic
Textbooks.

The Facebook group is intended to provide the means by which students and others can organize themselves and spread the word.


Toxic Textbooks活动在Facebook 的介绍：

Toxic Textbooks 的网址：http://www.toxictextbooks.com/
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This is a movement to encourage universities to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world.

Toxic textbooks helped cause the current economic meltdown. It did not result from natural causes or human conspiracy, but because society at all levels became infected with false beliefs regarding the nature of economic reality. And the primary sources of this infection are the “neoclassical” or “mainstream” textbooks long used in introductory economics courses in universities throughout the world.

Every year these “mainstream” books serve to indoctrinate millions of students in a quaint ideology (perfect rationality of economic agents, market efficiency, the invisible hand, etc.) cunningly disguised as science. This mass miseducation deprives society of the moral and intellectual capacities it needs in order to design and maintain the support systems required by market economies.

We need new, non-toxic textbooks. More economic catastrophes will befall us and our children if we do not replace our toxic textbooks with non-toxic ones immediately. If decency and good sense prevail in academia, then affecting this reform will not be a problem. But textbook reform will damage many economic faculties and toxic textbook authors. The former will suffer losses to their reputations, the latter to their royalties, which in some cases run to millions of dollars.

Society can therefore expect well-placed and richly-funded strategic resistance to doing the right and necessary thing. This Facebook group and the website www.toxictextbooks.com exist to help citizens, especially students, mobilize and organize themselves to overcome these vested interests.


“This modern paradigm held sway for decades. The whole intellectual edifice, however, collapsed in the summer of last year." Alan Greenspan, 2008

www.toxictextbooks.com