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 history of modern economics abounds with pleas for more pluralism as well as pleas for more unification. These seem … particular, Samuelson's Foundations is invariably presented as a key text in the unification of modern economics during the … derivational unification was pluralist in spirit: not to narrow scientific economics into one single theory, but rather to allow …

early neoclassical economics priorto WWII. Secondly, we also argue that embroynic to Knight’s account of economics were …

common knowledge of early neoclassical economics prior to WWII. Secondly, we also argue that embroynic to Knight’s account of … economics were two divergent approaches to economic thought that emerged in the post WWII. The first approach is what has come …

Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 … experimentation in economics. Remarks that experiments are impossible in economics have been (almost) eliminated only this decade …

science and its differing seminal systems. Today mainstream economics solves certain problems chosen within the scope of … Economics and the Postgraduate Program in Economics, at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil, and leader of …