Mainstream textbooks present economics as an objective science free from value
judgements; that settles disputes by testing hypotheses; that applies a pre-determined body …

Computer science indicates that thinking means the processes in which a finite number of
innate'instructions' act serially, alternately, and selectively on data. This implies a …

In this new volume it is argued that network effects are much more common than usually
assumed, and that they have a profound impact on many aspects of economic systems …

At the University of Bergen in Norway, educating students to use computer models and to
think systemically about social and economic problems began in the 1970s. The …

Students are expected to think critically about economic processes but not about the way
economists explain those processes. They are generally powerless to do the latter. This …

This paper is primarily for instructors seeking new ways to teach the endogenous view of
money creation, ie, that money supply responds to the economy's credit demands, in …

This article describes the value added by a stock-and-flow feedback diagram to text-only
instruction in macroeconomics. The experiment was motivated by a prior study in which the …

This paper discusses the application of the economy studies approach to teaching
economics courses in non-economic/interdisciplinary programs through the use of justice as …

In 2012, after a few years of informal collaboration, the System Dynamics Group at Norway's
University of Bergen and the Finance Department at Ukraine's National University of Kyiv …

At the University of Bergen in Norway, educating students to use computer models and to
think systemically about social and economic problems began in the 1970s. The …