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Economics has sustainable political impact, shapes beliefs, institutions and policies and co-creates global economic reality. Therefore, citizens should be aware of economics’ ways of thinking and its impact on national and international institutions and policies. The chapter presents plural perspectives to economic globalisation. It outlines rather mixed empirical evidence. Against widespread belief, national governments are still key players of economic globalisation enjoying considerable leeway in dealing with domestic impact of globalisation. From this perspective, global citizenship education can be conceptualised as “normal” citizenship education applied to the field of global political issues.

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I am very grateful for proposals from Thorsten Hippe which helped very much to conceptualise the chapter.

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  1. Chair of Social Science Education and Economic Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Postfach 100 131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Reinhold Hedtke

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  1. Department of Education, University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Ian Davies

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

    Li-Ching Ho

  3. Department of Education and Social Justice, School of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Dina Kiwan

  4. Department of Elementary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Carla L. Peck

  5. Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom

    Andrew Peterson

  6. Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Edda Sant

  7. Department of Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Yusef Waghid

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Hedtke, R. (2018). Economy and Economics. In: Davies, I., et al. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59733-5_20

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