What Is Heterodox Economics? by Mearman Andrew;Berger Sebastian;Guizzo Danielle; & Sebastian Berger & Danielle Guizzo

Author:Mearman, Andrew;Berger, Sebastian;Guizzo, Danielle; & Sebastian Berger & Danielle Guizzo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2019-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 10.1

In political ecology, an early foundational book was Land Degradation and Society edited by Blaikie and Brookfield (1987). Later, both fields acquired international societies and their own journals, and many textbooks and handbooks; they organise conferences. I am one of the main authors in both fields, trying to bring them together.

To clarify, why did you decide to study economics as an undergraduate? What got you interested?

I remember when I was 17 years old telling a cousin of mine, five years older and studying agricultural engineering, that I wanted to study sociology, and he told me you should enrol in Economics because there is no Sociology (yet) at the University of Barcelona. I really had no idea. My father had died many years before, and my mother (of a bourgeois family) was clever but had not been to university. She regretted this. Economics was new in Barcelona. We had a normal curriculum: calculus, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and we self-taught ourselves by reading other books published in Mexico by Fondo de Cultura Económica. There was repression under Franco and a great intellectual void in Catalonia with so many people gone into exile or expelled from university teaching. We had interesting teachers in economic history (Vicens Vives), analytical philosophy (Sacristán), economic policies (Estapé). In our group of students we were asked to translate the first-draft reports from the World Bank [WB] on Spain, in 1960–61. This was when Spain joined the OECD. Quick economic growth started. I remember that the WB recommended giving up the railways and building instead new motorways. I was not yet mentally equipped to have an opinion on this.

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