A pluralist approach to economics is both necessary from anacademic as well a policy point of view. From an … academicviewpoint pluralism can be understood as the outcome ofcompetition and specialization in the search for new ideasthat can deal …) teaching the art of economicpolicy; (2) stress teaching economics by learning from the past;(3) teach by becoming imperialist …

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

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 … teaching. Furthermore, economic policy based on mainstream economics is still prevalent. It is therefore necessary to consider …

In this paper we explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis …. The three claims under study are: (1) economics exhibits strong forms of intellectual stratification and, as a byproduct … mainstream economics is a highly self-referential intellectual project mostly inaccessible to disciplinary or paradigmatic …