In 2018, rethinkers Joris Tieleman, Sam de Muijnck, Maarten Kavelaar and Francis Ostermeijer conducted a quantitative research on economics programmes in the Netherlands. The concluding report was ‘Thinking like an economist?’ (https://www.rethinkingeconomics.nl/publications).

In 2021, RE:NL invited all the deans of economics faculties in the Netherlands for a conversation. The goal of the conversation is to get a better understanding of the status of economics education now. The deans talk about the strengths of their university and programme, their goals related to their economics programmes, and they reflect on their programme in relation to RE:NL values.

Now in 2022, we are publishing the first interview with prof. dr. van Witteloostuijn from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The interview was conducted by Aleksandra Twardowska and Tim Mulder, with support of Barnabas Bakucz.

Check out the interview and let’s keep the conversation going!

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Conversations with the Deans #01 – Arjen van Witteloostuijn (VU)