Student Rethinkers
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Elisa Terragno Bogliaccini
Chairman Elisa is at the moment a BSc Economics student at Utrecht School of Economics. She's especially interested in development and finding ways of making education more relevant for today's challenges. |
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Mikal Postel
Treasurer Mikal is a PPLE student with a major in Politics at the University of Amsterdam. |
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Floris van Dijk
Core team Floris is studying Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics with a major in economics at the University of Amsterdam. He is particularly interested in the role quantitative economics can have in more critical economics education. |
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Nils Bohr
Secretary Nils studies economics in the bachelor PPLE at the University of Amsterdam. |
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Paula Gutiérrez
Core team Paola studied Development Economics and Latin American Studies. She is interested in applying the multidimensional approach of economics in real life and contributing to solving social, economic and environmental problems. |
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Marc Beckmann
Core team Marc is studying Politics, Law, Psychology and Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He joined Rethinking Economics because he thinks that working on economics education offers great potential for positive change. |
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Habiba Fouad
Core team Habiba is a third year PPLE bachelor student at the University of Amsterdam, with a specialization in Economics and a minor in International Development. She believes that economics education today lacks the depth and diversity of economics in the real world. |
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Sam de Muijnck
Past Chairman Sam studies Economics (Bsc) at the Radboud Univerity Nijmegen. He is especially interested in developments within economic research and education. |
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Maarten Kavelaars
Past Secretary Maarten studies Political Economy (MSc) at the University of Amsterdam. He's convinced that diversity in approaches and perspectives will enrich the economic science. |
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Joris Tieleman
Past Chairman Joris is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam. To him, economics is the most fascinating phenomenon on the planet. |
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Lorenzo E. Fränkel
Past Secretary Lorenzo just finished Spatial, Transport, & Environmental Economics (MSc) at the VU Amsterdam. A short term critical realist, but long term idealistic optimist. |
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You ! We're always looking for new Rethinkers to join our team. If you want to join, please let us now! Visit our contact page. |
Become a Rethinker
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Local Rethinker
In Amsterdam we have book club and in the Rotterdam branch has been created this year, but every university needs to be active! Do you want to create or join a network at your university? And are you a people person? We always need local Rethinkers to spread the message and organize, especially in the following cities: Groningen, Tilburg, Utrecht, Nijmegen, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. |
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Written word warrior
We have written pieces for MeJudice, Follow the Money and Young Critics. But would like publish a lot more. So, are you overloaded with ideas and ready share them with the world? Are you a good writer? Then take out your pen and paper (or laptop) and join the battle on the (digital) page! Our Writer’s platform gives you the space to share your ideas and learn from experienced writers. |
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Website master Do you like making and maintaining websites? Are you creative? Do you have ideas for our website or would like to keep the website up to date? Well, the online image of Rethinking Economics NL is in your hands. |
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Meetup coordinator
We organized an event with Steve Keen, Daniel Mügge and the event The New Economist. Do you like to organize activities like lectures, discussions, movie sessions, drinks, or something else you want to do? Together we can organize events where Rethinkers can meet and discuss new ideas about the economy and economics education. |
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Visual architect
To support our ideas we not only need words, but also pictures. Do you like making infographics, well we like you to that for us! |
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Researcher
The past year we published a comparative analysis of bachelor curricula in the Netherlands. Interested in using your research skills to change economic education? Help us with our future surveys! We are planning a teacher and student survey. |
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Don’t you see your profile in our vacancies? Don’t worry, you still can apply! You might have your own idea how to become active of course, and we would love to hear about it. Let’s think about it together. There are always ways to help, so get involved and sign in on our contact page!
Academic Rethinkers
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Prof.dr. Irene van Staveren
Vice-chair Irene is professor of Pluralist Development Economics at the Institute for Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Check out her pluralist textbook: Economics after the Crisis! |
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Dr. Robert Went
Boardmember Robert is senior economist at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). He's a Twitter Jedi master, check it out! |
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Esther Somers
Boardmember Esther studied Social and Political Ethics at the University of Tilburg. In 2006 she turned her focus to economics, and in 2014 she set up the academic network of Rethinking Economics NL. |
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Prof. dr. Daniel Mügge Professor of Political Economy, University of Amsterdam |
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Prof. dr.ir. Jan Rotmans Professor of sustainable transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
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Prof. dr. Rolph van der Hoeven Professor of employment and development economics, Institute for Social Studies (EUR) |
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Prof. dr. Herman Wijffels Professor of sustainability and societal change, Utrecht University |
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Prof. dr. Cees Withagen Professor of environmental economics, VU Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute |
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Prof. dr. Jan Jonker Professor of sustainable entrepeneurship, Radboud University Nijmegen |
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Prof. dr. Lex Hoogduin Professor of economics and financial institutions, University of Amsterdam and University of Groningen |
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Prof. dr. Ewald Engelen Professor of financial geography, University of Amsterdam |
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Prof. dr. Ronald Jeurissen Professor of business ethics, Nyenrode Business University |
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Prof. dr. Arjo Klamer Professor of the economics of art and culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
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Prof. dr. Cars Hommes Professor of economic dynamics, University of Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute |
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Prof. dr. Esther-Mirjam Sent Professor of economic theory and policy, Radboud University Nijmegen, and member of the Senate for PvdA |
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Prof. dr. Theo Kocken Professor of risk management for institutional investors, VU Amsterdam |
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Prof. dr. Aart de Zeeuw Professor of environmental economics, Tilburg University |
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Prof. dr. Wim Dubbink Professor of business ethics, Tilburg University |
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Dr. Joeri Sol Assistant professor of entrepreneurship, University of Amsterdam |
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Dr. Piet Keizer Associate professor of economic methodology, Utrecht University School of Economics |
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Prof. dr. Hans Opschoor Professor-emeritus of environmental economics (VU Amsterdam), and economics of sustainable development (Institute for Social Studies, The Hague) |
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Prof. dr. Jan Luiten van Zanden Professor of economic and social history, Utrecht University |
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Dr. Lou Keune Economist and former associate professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tilburg University |
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Prof. dr. Harry Hummels Professor of ethics, organisations, and society, University of Maastricht |
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Do you support our mission for a more pluralistic economic education? Let us know via our contact page. |