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This blog series will engage briefly with some of the contemporary, as well as older, theories, models and concepts in economics and political economy, and will draw on the potential ...

Published Dec 2, 2014 A lecturer from the University of Manchester, Dr Terry Peach, whose research area is primarily in the History of Economic Thought, comments on one of our ...

The UoM Post-Crash Economics Society were lucky to have Kate Raworth from the University of Oxford present her work on Ecological Economics. Ecological Economics is perhaps one of the most ...

Steve Keen and IDEAnomics have launched a project to create a graphic version of Steve Keen’s book Debunking Economics – which is recommended and on our reading list – to try and make economic ideas outside the mainstream ...

One of the key motivations for PCES has been a forward-looking desire for us, as graduates of Economics, to understand our social environment and, beyond this, to change it. Following ...

A reply to the University of Manchester’s Economics department’s response to “Economics, Education and Unlearning” We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for responding to our report ...

Read the response to our 2014 report from the University of Manchester Economics Department here: PCEPCES-Report-ResponseDownload ...

A recent post by blogger Tony Yates presents an opportunity for us to give a brief clarification of what we would like to see on the economics curriculum, and to ...

Known chiefly as Karl Marx’ sidekick, Friedrich Engels was the other pioneer of post-Enlightenment communist philosophy. Engels and Marx worked together on nearly everything either of them produced – history ...