get involved in new activities within the research, application and pedagogical areas. In particular social networks and …

matter of course that economics should become a natural science. Such a characterization misses an essential aspect of a …

This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and … the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using natural science methods in economics was met with little … understanding and often considerable hostility. I found economics to be driven less by common sense and empirical evidence, than by …

This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and … the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using natural science methods in economics was met with little … understanding and often considerable hostility. I found economics to be driven less by common sense and empirical evidence, than by …

Classical virtue theory has received limited attention in economics. The paper demonstrates its fruitfulness for … economic and legal analysis by linking the traditional ethical literature with modern law and economics. Virtues are … economics. It is found that the virtue factor has major significance in economic life.The paper also outlines a general …

happened to political economy ever since, and how far economics has diverged from Robbins' agenda. Our main claim is that these … topics appeared on the second edition of the Essay because Robbins saw them as fundamental if economics (as a science) were … to mimic the methods of the natural sciences by preserving the human element that makes economics a social science …

In educating economists, we should sacrifice some of the more technical aspects of economics (which can be learned … these interdisciplinary studies are given here. In the discussion of the place of mathematics in economics, fuzziness enters … economics, are regarded as a "soft" technology compared with the "hard" technology of the natural sciences, development studies …