A look at the daily press reveals: Whether the topic is hunger, environmental degradation, climate change, the financial market crisis, social inequality or unemployment – the (economic) problems of our time are manifold and complex. Nevertheless, economics in academia, private think tanks, and journalists offer rather unidimensional answers concerning these challenges. A major reason for this limited perspective lies in the fact that the theoretical concepts behind emanate from only one economic school of thought. But that is exactly the problem.

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