This book continues the on-going debate about the need for alternative, interdisciplinary and heterodox approaches to teaching economics at university.  It deals with challenges currently faced by economists, pursues an interdisciplinary approach to enhance collaboration with academics from disciplines other than economics, and analyses several questions and issues related to the 2007-08 financial crisis and the current Covid-19 emergency.  The on-going Covid pandemic has shown the flaws of the current neoliberal model and the inability of mainstream economic theory to address the problems...