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academicviewpoint pluralism can be understood as the outcome ofcompetition and specialization in the search for new ideasthat can deal …
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When heterodox economists talk of pluralism they generally are talking about pluralism within the economics … useful, way to think of pluralism and economics is from the perspective of all the social sciences. When looked in reference … to the social science profession rather than in reference to the economics profession, the amount of pluralism increases …
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academicviewpoint pluralism can be understood as the outcome ofcompetition and specialization in the search for new ideasthat can deal …
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This paper contributes to the debate on pluralism in the Economics curriculum. Here pluralism means a diversity of … theoretical perspectives. One set of pedagogical arguments for pluralism are those found in ‘liberal’ philosophy of education. To … this end, the first part of the paper presents arguments for pluralism based on ‘liberal’ pedagogical arguments. The paper …
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Mainstream macroeconomics has pursued 'micro founded' models based on the explicit optimization by representative agents. The result has been a long and wasteful detour. But elements of the Lucas critique are relevant, also for heterodox economists. Challenging common heterodox views on...
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Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists' engagements with other disciplines—e.g. mathematics, statistics,...
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Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be … relations towards minority workers. Pluralism might be jeopardised if there is a limited desire to engage with less …
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Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be … relations towards minority workers. Pluralism might be jeopardised if there is a limited desire to engage with less …
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Transition is not just transition of formal institutions, convergence of price levels and living standards. The closure or the gap in formal institutions is probably less time demanding than the closure of ideological or mental gap, created in many fields in academy or social life. Social...
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This paper conducts a type of meta-analysis of a sample of commentaries on heterodox economics, also drawing on biological literature and other treatments of classification. The paper contrasts what might be called a ‘classical’ category with a ‘modern’ category and then analyses...
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