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Economics as a discipline is currently in disarray. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, academic experts, students, commentators, practitioners and politicians all questioned the status of academic economics and many called for a 'new economic thinking'. Nearly a decade later,...
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Pluralism is frequently supported by heterodox economists, but their rationale for it is not always transparent. It …, as a programme for how economics should best be done. This paper evaluates strategic pluralism, compares it with the …
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What determines the kinds of questions economists ask and the answers they find convincing? More generally, why are the institutions that constitute scholarly economics the way they are? I answer both of these questions by positing that within the modern economics profession, it is plausible...
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In previous research on the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise on heterodox economics and heterodox economists in the UK, the author concluded that reliance on Diamond List journals to rank departments would drive economic departments to discriminate positively in terms of their hiring,...
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. Nevertheless, there is neither a consensus over the form of pluralism that is required (whether this is a theory, method, or … paradigm pluralism, for example), nor agreement among economists over the underlying diagnosis of a lack of pluralism. Even the …
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nature and scope, does not take pluralism seriously, and lacks expertise concentration to ensure quality which means it has … pluralism, the definition and project of heterodox economics, its relationship to the changing form of mainstream, and the merit …
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The present crisis has revealed that around the globe we are often only able to react to crises when it is (almost) too late. This paper addresses and explains the mono-structure of thought that has led to this predicament and delineates a new model of cognition capable of creating a new...
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Pluralism in economics appears to be a double-edged sword: we need more than one theory to grasp and explain the entire … 'objective knowledge' in the singular of the 'one world one truth' conception. Therefore, pluralism is often equated with … relativism and obscurantism. In this article, I will explore both the demand for pluralism and the fear of relativism and …
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unintended, but they are still there and show the dangerous consequences of the death of pluralism in economics. The critique of …
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The paper approaches the theme of the relatively higher level of pluralism in Brazilian economics, when compared to … maintain incentives to pluralism, besides correcting many problems in the ranking. …
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