Elisenda Paluzie: «We can't go on teaching economics as if nothing had happened over the last 20 years»
In this interview Elisenda Paluzie analyses the origins of the so-called Post Crash movement in Catalonia and the effects on a renowned institution such as the one she heads: the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona (UB). Paluzie believes this critical movement, which began following the recent economic crisis, is principally rooted in a lack of plurality in teaching, which can be based on three elements: theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity. She comments on how these three factors are treated in her faculty and ends on the need for the teaching of economics to evolve. In this regard she highlights ‘The core Project’, an initiative with a goal to reset the approach to economics teaching with new coursebooks, in the belief that the materials currently holding sway continue to approach matters as if during the last 20 years nothing had occurred.
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Carolina HintzmannProfessor in Economic and Business Studies (UOC). Doctorate in Economics from the University of Barcelona and a degree in Economic and Business Studies from the same university. Head of the Economy degree of Economic and Business Studies at the UOC and coordinator of international mobility of said studies. Her areas of specialization are in the field of macroeconomy, economic growth and work productivity. Member of the research group Finance, Management & Macroeconomics (FM2).
Joan Miquel GomisAssociate professor of Economics and Business Studies at the UOC. He was academic director of the degree in Tourism from 2006 to 2017. Director of the magazine Oikonomics. Doctorate from the department of Economics and Business Organization (UB). His teaching and research (with the group NOUTUR at the UOC) focus on the tourism sector in the application of ICT to commercialization, innovation, sustainability and destination management.
