ABSTRACT
The debates about the education of economists focus on the curriculum, particularly on its level of pluralism. However, the question about the social being of economics students, which determines their need to develop their scientific consciousness with a certain content, has been disregarded. Apparently, economics students are free individuals pursuing objective knowledge. Underlying this appearance, they are workers developing their labour power as a commodity. As such members of the working class, their concrete labour involves the direct management of society’s total capital. Thus, their field of work is that of political relations, of the class struggle. Economics students unavoidably produce themselves as subjects of political action; consequently, their teachers operate as political subjects. Only if both political subjectivities recognise themselves as such, can the formation of economists have an objective, hence scientific, character. Plurality is not a matter of abstract universality, but about economics students discovering their social being.
KEYWORDS: Science; Working Class; Economists; Political subjectivity