The legacy of the last 50 years of development economics is not very inspiring. In the 1960s and 1970s, instead of … looking at the real causes and viable solutions to poverty and underdevelopment, development economics was preoccupied with …. Despite its past problems, development economics has recently evolved to better reflect the realities of developing countries …

pioneered the area of micro-foundation of macro-economics. The great missing link in economic theory, both of micro-economics … and macro-economics, is the inability to methodologically integrate ethical and moral values through preference mapping …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the “Radical economics” issue in International Journal of Social … Economics. Design/methodology/approach – “Radical economics” has two basic meanings. One employs the basic sense of “radical … orthodoxy of the time. This issue examines radical economics in both senses. Findings – The recent world economic crisis raises …

from mainstream economics. Design/methodology/approach – In concentrating on Galbraith's theory of power – certainly his … most radical contribution to economics – the paper begins to provide an overview of his conceptual work. This overview … Institutional and Post Keynesian economics and to a number of randomly chosen standard economics textbook. Findings – This …

outlined and a new research programme to unify and integrate the science of economics is detailed. A Truth Table, a … methodological instrument for orientation and clarification, is used to analyse the relationships between economics, sociology …