This paper discusses how Mark Blaug reversed his thinking about the historiography of economics, abandoning rational … reconstructions for historical ones, by using an economics of scientific knowledge argument against Paul Samuelson and others that … thinking, thereby advancing an evolutionary view of economics that has connections to his Lakatosian research programs …

This paper reviews the debate in economics over neuroeconomics' contribution to economics. It distinguishes majority … and minority views, argues that this debate has been framed by mainstream economics' conception of itself as an isolated … science, and argues that this framing has put off the agenda in economics issues such as individual identity that are …

This paper uses George Soros' theory of boom--bust cycles to argue that mainstream economics, as built on Samuelson … positive feedback pattern was associated with the “misconception” that when economics is framed as a natural science as per … recognition that this was a “misconception” and the emergence of mainstream economics' performative ambition – the idea that …

economics is not a matter of economists holding methodological views about economics practice that are contrary to pluralism …This short paper examines a possible connection between religion and economics in terms of the parallelism between the … Homo economicus doctrine and the individual soul doctrine. The paper explores whether resistance to pluralism in economics …