Economics education: literacy or mind framing?: Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal
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1 septembre 2016
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Economics education free-marketeering of economists trust social and political values, attitudes and behaviorsSujets proches
Economic theory Political economyCiter ce document
João Carlos Graça et al., « Economics education: literacy or mind framing?: Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal », Análise Social, ID : 10670/1.vjvbkk
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Does studying economics have an effect on molding the values and attitudes embodying the trust-building processes of a democratic society? Mainstream economics teaching, based on the self-interest model of rational, maximizing, individualistic representative agent, may well cause indoctrinating effects, creating or reinforcing political free-marketeering, as well as selfishness values, attitudes, and behaviors among economics students. In this paper a contribution is made for these discussions, based on the results of a survey performed in Portugal in three years (2006, 2009, and 2012) addressed to a considerably diverse sample of respondents (economics students, other students, and common citizens).