The paper itself only covers part of what was on the survey, with data about interdisciplinary, specific schools of thought, student’s reasons for studying #econ, and demographic info put in the (very long) appendix and saved for future research (tell us if you’re interested!!

Based on these results, we think pluralist education could be an effective way to prepare economics students to work and live in a world characterized by “polycrisis”, and hope Italian universities will consider increasing pluralism as a strategy to attract and retain students.

We also asked students what they would change about their education “if they had a magic wand”. We argue that fact that only 6 (of over 500) directly mentioned “pluralism” is good evidence that our results are not skewed by our friends at Rethinking Economics.

There was also a very clear link between levels of pluralism and overall satisfaction (with the fancy econometrics in the paper!)

In the survey, we found very clear links between students saying their degree was pluralist degrees, and saying that they had developed a range of skills and learned about a number of topics.

Using both a detailed review of the economics curriculum at Italian universities, and a survey of Italian economics student, we tried to understand what links we could find between pluralist education and educational quality (skill formation, topic coverage, and satisfaction).

Check it out (open access!): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Finally, I put the concepts and methods together to create a number of "extreme" pathways which are difficult to represent with existing models, but could be explored with a more heterodox toolkit.

I also cover some of the methodologies associated with heterodox economics which are already being put to use in climate-economy modeling.

...and an even longer list of specific examples of how these concepts could be applied.

The paper looks at the field of climate-economy modeling and asks what heterodox economics can do to make it more interesting and useful. Highlights include a very long list of concepts from heterodox economics which could be useful for modeling climate and energy systems…

Finally, my model points to a worrying long-term trend: unless we 100% decarbonize the economy, growth in carbon-intensive sectors will send emissions up again after an initial ‘transition’. /End

Luckily, it looks like we can offset the employment losses in these sectors with higher growth in labor-intensive sectors, even if overall GDP growth rates are much lower!

The main result is that even with extreme progress on energy efficiency and renewable energy, we will still need demand reductions in carbon-intensive sectors in order to bring down global emissions.

... I built my own model, which represents economic production, energy use, labor use, and emissions. It owes its inspiration (and data!) to the MEDEAS model.

The goal of the model was to find transition pathways which reduce emissions without killing jobs.

Building off my work in connecting heterodox economics and climate economy modeling... link.springer.com/article/10.1...