This paper argues that mainstream economics does not follow the positivist research tradition it (often implicitly …) claims to follow and expresses some serious doubt that econometrics in particular can make economics a hard science …. Mathematical rigour and sophisticated statistical techniques may be regarded as persuasive analytical tools in economics, but their …

recently that the term sustainability economics was used explicitly in the ecological, environmental, and resource economics … community. Yet, the contributions that use the term sustainability economics do not refer to any explicit definition of the term … background. The question thus arises: What is sustainability economics? In this essay, we make an attempt at systematically …

methods. The presentation will showcase “Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal” as one prime example …. “Economics”, as the name indicates, covers papers from all parts of Economic Research. These papers, if accepted, are first … Bank or the London School of Economics (LSE). After a slow start more and more comments and reviews are added to new papers …

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

In April 2013, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) introduced an inflation target of 2% with the aim of overcoming deflation and … reduce its 2% inflation target in the present low oil price era. Secondly, it argues that Japan cannot make a sustainable … interest rates are set too low. Japan's long-term recession is due to structural problems that cannot be solved by its current …