There is an internet economic outreach group in Brazil that I am pleased to participate and financially support called Mainstream Economics (Economia Mainstream): https://economiamainstream.com.br
Particularly, I think that this project could have an important impact given the strength (and the damage) caused by economic ideas that deviate from the economic mainstream in Latin America and in Brazil, in particular.
Our goal is to disseminate knowledge about economics as much as possible. More specifically, knowledge about mainstream economics, that is, the economics that are taught in the most relevant teaching and research centers and that serve as a framework for most scientific articles published in the major journals.
We want, through our content, to contribute to the propagation and expansion of economic knowledge. For this reason, our content is aimed at both the lay public and those who already have a certain knowledge of the subject.
1.1. Why do we have this goal?
First, for the simple fact that we love scientific dissemination for its own sake, for the pure and simple pleasure of talking about economics.
Second, because we believe that the lack of economic knowledge has generated disastrous results in Brazil. Throughout history, our country has suffered from preposterous economic plans and unsustainable political promises. The result of this is the permanent poverty in which we live, enormous inequality, a completely disorganized institutional environment, a lack of commitment to the future, and, ultimately, the erosion of the social fabric in which we find ourselves today.
We are aware that at this moment we are small players in the construction of the change we aspire to. But as much as our influence at this time is marginal, our ambition is gigantic.
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4. Our future projects
We have projects that are either just in the field of ideas or in the embryonic stage or in the development stage. Some of these projects are:
“Microeconomics Project”: teaching the fundamentals of microeconomics (we want to write texts along the lines of this one).
“Programming Project”: teaching programming fundamentals to economists in R and Python languages.
Short videos for Youtube: make animations of short videos for our Youtube channel teaching some economics concepts.
Courses: organize courses such as finance, programming, etc.
Book: publish a book with a collection of articles – whether modified articles already posted on our website or completely new articles.
There is an internet economic outreach group in Brazil that I am pleased to participate and financially support called Mainstream Economics (Economia Mainstream): https://economiamainstream.com.br
Particularly, I think that this project could have an important impact given the strength (and the damage) caused by economic ideas that deviate from the economic mainstream in Latin America and in Brazil, in particular.
I translated a small excerpt from the group’s presentation text (which can be read in Brazilian-Portuguese here: https://economiamainstream.com.br/artigo/o-que-e-o-projeto-economia-mainstream/)
1. Our goal
Our goal is to disseminate knowledge about economics as much as possible. More specifically, knowledge about mainstream economics, that is, the economics that are taught in the most relevant teaching and research centers and that serve as a framework for most scientific articles published in the major journals.
We want, through our content, to contribute to the propagation and expansion of economic knowledge. For this reason, our content is aimed at both the lay public and those who already have a certain knowledge of the subject.
1.1. Why do we have this goal?
First, for the simple fact that we love scientific dissemination for its own sake, for the pure and simple pleasure of talking about economics.
Second, because we believe that the lack of economic knowledge has generated disastrous results in Brazil. Throughout history, our country has suffered from preposterous economic plans and unsustainable political promises. The result of this is the permanent poverty in which we live, enormous inequality, a completely disorganized institutional environment, a lack of commitment to the future, and, ultimately, the erosion of the social fabric in which we find ourselves today.
We are aware that at this moment we are small players in the construction of the change we aspire to. But as much as our influence at this time is marginal, our ambition is gigantic.
...
4. Our future projects
We have projects that are either just in the field of ideas or in the embryonic stage or in the development stage. Some of these projects are:
“Microeconomics Project”: teaching the fundamentals of microeconomics (we want to write texts along the lines of this one).
“Programming Project”: teaching programming fundamentals to economists in R and Python languages.
Short videos for Youtube: make animations of short videos for our Youtube channel teaching some economics concepts.
Courses: organize courses such as finance, programming, etc.
Book: publish a book with a collection of articles – whether modified articles already posted on our website or completely new articles.