Economics education: literacy or mind framing?: Evidence from a survey on the social building of trust in Portugal
Does studying economics have an effect on molding the values and attitudes embodying the trust-building processes of a democratic society? Mainstream economics teaching, based on the self-interest model of rational, maximizing, individualistic representative agent, may well cause indoctrinating effects, creating or reinforcing political free-marketeering, as well as selfishness values, attitudes, and behaviors among economics students. In this paper a contribution is made for these discussions, based on the results of a survey performed in Portugal in three years (2006, 2009, and 2012) addressed to a considerably diverse sample of respondents (economics students, other students, and common citizens).
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa
2016
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0003-25732016000300001 |
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