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Decolonising economics

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Earlier in the year Ihsaan Bassier, a graduate student in economics at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was on our Breakfast show to discuss the need to “decolonize” the teaching of undergraduate economics at UCT. Economics in South African universities is currently taught in the manner and methods of the neoclassical school which has been shaped by universities in the West. Bassier sparked a debate in the teaching of economics in African institutions that has resulted in opposing views to Westernised ideological practices implemented in Africa. Since then the topic of “Decolonising economics” has grown into a movement that goes beyond just a graduate student who feels disengaged from economics. Today we discuss the grounds for Bassier's argument and some of the opposing views that economics should stay as it is...

Guest: Grieve Chelwa
Position: ‎Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Writes for Quartz and editor at Africa Is A Country
30 May 2016 10AM English South Africa News

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