Teaching Economic Thought: Landscapes After Battles In ‘Narrative and Systemic Modes of Economic Thinking ’ (van Bavel

Abstract

and economics experts ’ discourse in Chile is complemented by a look at expert-talk-based colonization of the social realities of Russia. It is demonstrated that resistance by laypeople to the acceptance of expert discourses is a buffering mechanism in a society to balance the import of deductively derived economic models from other countries. A dialogical approach is suggested for making sense of economic processes in any society