In this paper, we outline a number of features of an interdisciplinary and pluralistic approach to economics. As a suitable example of how an interdisciplinary cooperation can unfold, we focus attention on the relations between institutional economics and psychoanalysis. In the first part of the...

In 1985 the Department of Economics at Dickinson College USA, a private four year liberal arts college, embarked upon a bold but promising reform of its economics programme placing it on the cutting edge of what is now called 'pluralist economics education'. This new approach to the philosophy...

This paper provides a basic overview of original institutional economics (OIE). It is intended to serve as a primer for anyone interested in knowing more about OIE. The paper provides an OIE perspective on four major topics: humans and their relation to the natural environment, technology, the...

In this paper, we address several aspects of the present economic and social crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective. We focus attention on Institutional and Keynesian economics and on the role of public spending and credit creation in the formation of private sector aggregate profit....

The global financial crisis of 2008 surprised most people, especially economists. Indeed, the financial crisis had a more devastating effect than simply creating the most significant global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s: It rocked the epicentre of the economics...