"The story of stuff" -- a great resource for economics teachers and students
While reading George Monbiot's column (published in today's Guardian), I followed his footnote to this great site that I hadn't seen before: The Story of Stuff Project. I watched their first 20 minute video of the same name -- thought provoking stuff! Perfect to show to my introductory economic class next term just after they've read the chapter on 'resource maintenance' and are doing the one on consumption and consumerism (in Microeconomics in Context, by Goodwin, Nelson, Ackerman, & Weisskopf).
There's a series of other videos, all with annotated transcripts freely available, where sources and more background information is given. A great resource!
I'm Rod Hill, a professor of economics at the University of New Brunswick and the co-author, with Tony Myatt, of "The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics" (Zed Books, London & New York; Fernwood Books, Halifax & Winnipeg, 2010). The 2011 Indian edition was published by Books for Change (Bangalore). A Chinese translation has been published by Shiwenbooks, Beijing, and a Turkish translation appeared in 2017 published by Heretik Press, Ankara,. I will use this blog as a place to post discussion with readers of our book. I will also use it to write further about economics textbooks and their content, as well as about new books coming out that critique textbook economics.
Feel free to write to me at rodntony [AT] gmail.com.
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