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Reclaiming the university : transforming economics as a discipline
Heise, Arne - 2018
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799756
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Strategic Pluralism and Monism in Heterodox Economics
Jackson, William A. - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863877
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Pluralism in economics : inquiries into a Daedalean concept
Heise, Arne - 2016
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479975
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Ideology and pluralism : a German view
Heise, Arne - 2019
As a social science, economics studies social interactions. What distinguishes it from other social science disciplines is, firstly, its focus on interactions involving the management of scarce resources and, secondly, its conception of itself as generating traceable, verifiable findings that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135052
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Judging heterodox economics : a response to Hodgson's Criticisms
Chester, Lynne - In: Economic thought 8 (2019) 1, pp. 1-21
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156265
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Who is (your) Geoff Harcourt? : afterword two on The Man
Cohen, Avi Jonathan - 2021
In 2022, Cambridge University Press is publishing a 50th anniversary edition of Geoff Harcourt’s Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. There will be two afterwords, preceded with this introduction: You have before you CUP’s 50th anniversary edition of Geoff Harcourt’s Some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543913
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Pluralismus in der Ökonomik - verpasste Chance, überfälliges Programm oder normalwissenschaftliche Realität?
Quaas, Friedrun - 2020
The pluralism debate in economics that has been going on for two decades has not yet been able to provide an exhaustive … answer to the question of how to deal meaningfully with the phenomenon of a real plurality of paradigms, theories and methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197950
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Comparing economic theories or: Pluralism in economics and the need for a comparative approach to scientific research programmes
Heise, Arne - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254839
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"Change is always a last resort a change in habits of thought" : for a new biodiversity of cognition in the face of today's Crisis
Graupe, Silja - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221245
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Comparing economic theories or: Pluralism in economics and the need for a comparative approach to scientific research programmes
Heise, Arne - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251920