1. How scientific are the social sciences? -- 2. Toward a new scientific paradigm for the social science: according Myrdal -- 3. Planning and planning theory: the difficult legacy of Ragnar Frisch -- 4. Basic requirements for the Programming approach -- 5. The ‘Programming approach’ -- 6....

1. The programming approach, as futuristic decision and rational utopia -- 2. The programming approach and the old, unresolved debate of the ‘decision theory’ -- 3. The programming approach as collective decision-and-action centered analysis (and the ‘planning theory’ movement) -- 4. The...

This chapter argues that modern readers can benefit from studying the classics today, because the classical approach to studying an economic system in motion under a cumulative process of division of labour offers a superior starting point for analysing salient properties of capitalist market...