{"id":2041,"date":"2009-09-14T02:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:59:48","slug":"toxic-textbookscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Textbooks.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

a movement to encourage schools and universities to use economics textbooks that engage honestly with the real world<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toxic textbooks helped cause the economic meltdown: The current economic meltdown is not the result of 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 \u201cneoclassical\u201d or \u201cmainstream\u201d textbooks long used in introductory economics courses in universities throughout the world … (english Homepage 1\/2 and links<\/a>).<\/p>\n

On the same homepage you’ll find many links as: essays, cartoons, comedy, news, community. Homepages also in spanish<\/a>, in italian<\/a>, and in german<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Facebook: What and where are the alternatives<\/a>;
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english Homepage 2\/2<\/a> and links \/Mass miseducation:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Every year these \u201cmainstream\u201d 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

We need new, non-toxic textbooks:<\/p>\n