Economics Made Fun

N. Emrah Aydinonat is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bahceşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is also a part-time lecturer at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, and a research associate at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of The Invisible Hand in Economics (Routledge 2008) and What is Economics? (in Turkish, İletişim 2014). Recently he started writing opinion pieces for The Wall Street Journal Turkey. Jack Vromen is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is also academic director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics. Since his Ph.D research on Economic Evolution (Routledge, 1995) he has researched theoretical and meta-theoretical issues in Economics and Evolution. Recently he also developed research interests in Neuroeconomics, in social mechanisms and in the booming Economics Made Fun genre.

1. The paradox of popularity in economics 2. A less-is-more approach to introductory economics 3. Finding the right levers: the serious side of ‘economics made fun’ 4. On the philosophy of the new kiosk economics of everything 5. Economics is a serious and difficult subject 6. The two images of economics: why the fun disappears when difficult questions are at stake? 7. Inland empire: economics imperialism as an imperative of Chicago neoliberalism 8. The unbearable lightness of the economics-made-fun genre 9. The evolving notion of relevance: an historical perspective to the ‘economics made fun’ movement 10. Economic page turners 11. Economics made fun, and made fun of: how ‘fun’ redefines the domain and identity of the economics profession