Teaching the Economics of European and Global Interdependence

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The teaching of economics suffers from what Ulrich Beck called methodological nationalism. Macroeconomics takes the nation state as the unit of enquiry, while microeconomics focuses on the individuals in the market. However, in Europe, we live and act within a multi-level polity with a single market and a single currency. Hence the need to deepen the knowledge of teachers concerning the European economic system, multilayered governance and institutions. The aim of the project is to build, thanks to the link between academic research, teachers and feedbacks from students, a community to debate and work out a set of educational materials and courses to make the teaching of economics and social related subjects in secondary schools (in general, technical and vocational paths) more effective and updated tools, and at the same time easily understandable; and to grasp the complex and interdependent system of the European and global economy.