[PEN-L:6921] Textbook help

["Eric Nilsson" <enilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently received the following message asking for
help in finding suitable textbooks. If you think you
can make good suggestions, please sent it to:
           Olaf@xxxxxxxxx
>                 I am a post-grad. student at Institute of Political Science
>      in Aarhus, Denmark, currently involved in a committee set up to revise
>      the curriculum in economics on our undergraduate course. Inevitably,
>      the course is the usual schooling in neo-classical orthodoxy,
>      containing no self-awareness or self-criticism. Alternative approaches
>       are not even criticised, they are simply not 'disclosed' at all.
>      Since the last remnants of Marxist economics was removed 4 years ago,
>      the subject has become very one-dimensional as it is tought here.
>         Our group of students is therefore on the lookout for suitable
>      articles or texts which can serve as an introduction to a) the
>      problems of neo-classical economics and b) the main alternatives to
>      it. Our aim is to put neo-classical economics into perspective by
>      positioning it in relation to other traditions and approaches. This,
>      we believe will make it both more interesting, and more 'honest' in
>      that the basic premises and flaws of economics can come to light.
>
>         My request is therefore to ask you whether you know any good
>      critical introductions to economics. Ideally this would be a
>      'text-book' format introduction to the diversity of approaches in
>      economics. If such a book does not exist (and I fear that it doesn't)
>      second best would be key artilcles introduing problems and alternative
>      approaches.
>
>
>         I should be very grateful for any help you are able to offer on
>      this subject.
>
>
>                 Yours sincerely,
>
>
>                                 Olaf Corry.
Eric Nilsson
Department of Economics
California State University
San Bernardino, CA 92407
enilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx