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WEA Young Economists
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This Facebook group marks the beginning of the World Economics Association’s Young Economists Network (YEN). Its intention is to provide the means by which thousands of economics students and post-docs from… More around the world can join together to help reform the economics discipline, especially the way it is taught in universities, and to open up career opportunities for post-neoclassic
The YEN initiative includes the following aims.
• To set up a WEA Young Economists Journal, so as to create an opportunity for young researchers to present their work and new ideas to the wider scientific community. The journal’s linked content’s page will be emailed to the WEA’s 11,000+ members.
• To setup and lead Young Economists WEA online conferences.
• To encourage pluralistic engagement with fellow social scientists in political economy, development studies, and other disciplines.
• To build bridges between different spheres of economics; to bring neglected but critical issues into the economic spotlight; and to critically examine diverse methodologies.
• To broaden the learning environment of undergraduate and graduate economists, and thus expand the creativity and world-awareness
• To demystify economics as a technical science practised by experts only, and bring economic discourse into the hands of all people who participate in a polity shaped by economic forces.
• To get economics students and academics to see their roles and responsibilitie
• To help students and academics generate alternative materials for economics education.
• To provide support for students and academics endeavouring to reform economics education at their institution.
• To maintain a platform for discussing these and other issues.
The YEN initiative includes the following aims.
• To set up a WEA Young Economists Journal, so as to create an opportunity for young researchers to present their work and new ideas to the wider scientific community. The journal’s linked content’s page will be emailed to the WEA’s 11,000+ members.
• To setup and lead Young Economists WEA online conferences.
• To encourage pluralistic engagement with fellow social scientists in political economy, development studies, and other disciplines.
• To build bridges between different spheres of economics; to bring neglected but critical issues into the economic spotlight; and to critically examine diverse methodologies.
• To broaden the learning environment of undergraduate and graduate economists, and thus expand the creativity and world-awareness
• To demystify economics as a technical science practised by experts only, and bring economic discourse into the hands of all people who participate in a polity shaped by economic forces.
• To get economics students and academics to see their roles and responsibilitie
• To help students and academics generate alternative materials for economics education.
• To provide support for students and academics endeavouring to reform economics education at their institution.
• To maintain a platform for discussing these and other issues.
