Principles and Pluralist Approaches in Teaching Economics : Towards a Transformative Science

Samuel Decker is an economist and activist based in Berlin, Germany. He works as a scientific assistant for the online learning platform Exploring Economics (www. exploring-economics.org/en/). He holds a master’s degree in Political Economy of European Integration and is an active member of the student movement for pluralism in economics.

Wolfram Elsner was Professor of Economics at the University of Bremen, Germany, from 1995 until he retired in 2016. He has also worked as head of local economic development, head of the Planning Division of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the State of Bremen, and as director of the State of Bremen government’s economic research institute from 1986 to 1995. He was president of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy from 2012 to 2016.

Svenja Flechtner is an Assistant Professor of Pluralist Economics at the University of Siegen, Germany. She has been a research assistant at Europa-Universität Flensburg and Freie Universität Berlin. From 2014 to 2018, she was a council member of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.