Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week. Here is the plan for class.

1 – Introduction and check-in

2 – Thinking about economic systems and practices (finish discussion)

3 – Reading discussion

Summarize the article/chapter.

Summarize the portion of the chapter assigned to you.

How does your portion fit into the article? How does it fit into the other readings? 

How does your portion of the chapter relate to ecological economics? 

4 – Discussion questions:

(one question per group)

What is ecological economics? What is classical economics? What are the differences between mainstream economics and heterodox economics? 

What are some critiques of classical economics? What assumptions from classical economics have been normalized? 

What are critiques of ecological economics (from the readings and discussion)? What ways can ecological economists address these critiques? 

What are the shortcomings of classical economics? How can heterodox economics fill these shortcomings? 

What does it mean for economics to be performative? Please provide examples of ‘economic performativity’? 

(all groups)

What did you find interesting about the readings? Did you find anything problematic about the readings? 

What have you learned from the readings and class discussion that could be useful for a blog post on defining ecological economics?