Current projects of Plurale Ökonomik Zürich

Organizing a pluralistic summer school

Project Goal

We want to organize a pluralist summer school in summer 2022. It should enable young researchers as well as students to learn the essentials about pluralism in economics and applications of the different theories and methods.

Responsable / main contact

Lea Trogrlic

Project Team

Picture (from top left to bottom right): Nicolas Bauer, Karin Pfeifer, Yannick Sottas, Lea Trogrlic, Nemo Krüger, Diego Gehrig

Not in the picture: Thea Berger, Lara Schreier, Elaine Bauer

Initiating a Chair of Pluralist Economics at the University of Zurich

Project Goal

We want to search funding for a pluralist chair of economics at the University of Zurich. This project should help us to anchor pluralist teaching at UZHs institutions and provide space to establish more lectures and research.

Responsable / main contact

Lorenz Keysser

Project Team

Picture (from top left to bottom right): Lorenz Keysser, Joël Bühler, Lara Schneider, Lea Trogrlic

Not in the picture: Anne Pfister

Comprehensive documentation about the need for pluralism

Project Goal

We want to write texts to answer the most pressing questions about the need for pluralist education. The results should be a selection of factsheets that are able to convince students and academics by using the most striking arguments in favor of pluralism.

Responsable / main contact

Damian Durrer

Project Team

Developing a series of internal workshops to educate pluralists

Project Goal

Understanding the need for pluralisms and arguing in favor of it sometimes isn't a very easy task, especially if you are sitting in front of academics and researchers that have studied their subjects - or at least its mainstream current - for years. We will design a series of internal workshops to overcome this challenge and teach ourselves about the main arguments and considerations in favor of pluralist education and research.

Responsable / main contact

Diego Gehrig

Improving our internal mobilization

Project Goal

We want to increase our level of mobilization at the University of Zurich and forge an extensive network of students and researchers. In particular, we want to give our fellow students better access to information about our activities, about more pluralist courses at UZH and ETH and to build a movement that can legitimatelly demand an updated curriculum.

Responsable / main contact

Joël Bühler

Our strategy for curriculum change