The article discusses the ongoing debate about a potential paradigm shift in eco-nomics. Institutions like the … Institute for New Economic Thinking, the New Economics Foundation, and the Forum New Economy have been established to foster new … economics, rather than a complete overhaul of the discipline. The article concludes that while mainstream economics may become …

The state of contemporary economics had been a subject of discussion even before the most recent global financial …

This article discusses the development of 'heterodox' economics at universities in Germany since the 1970s. Based on … Lakatos' concept of scientific research programmes (SRP), the article introduces a classification of economics in order to … clarify the understanding of variety within economics, especially in the case of Germany. Based on this classification and …