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Agonism, decision, power: The art of working unfinished
Pløger, John - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 5, pp. 449-460
with a finite decision. This paper suggests that this agonistic approach needs de-cisions or simply put, temporary … decisions drawn from seeing a decision as a solution for now. A de-cision is not a no-decision, but a decision recognised as … planning process from being a matter of reaching a finite decision to a strife about how to understand the present and which …
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Soft system methodology approach: Tourism conceptual model as the identity of Bandung, Indonesia
Aldianto, Leo; Novani, Santi; Anggadwita, Grisna; Budi, … - In: Verslas: Teorija ir praktika / Business: Theory and Practice 21 (2020) 1, pp. 282-292
The Indonesian tourism sector has become one of government's focus points because of its significant contribution to economic development on all levels, district/city, province, or national. As an Indonesian city, Bandung has a lot of tourism potential with its local cultural diversity. The...
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Economics as a Science -or viewed from the perspective of scientists in other fields
Vergés-Jaime, Joaquim - In: CADMUS 4 (2020) 2, pp. 247-257
The aim of this article is to underline that the core paradigm of mainstream economics, the economics’ standard model (ESM), rests upon an explanatory theory that draws on deductive assumptions which are not supported by what observations of the reality of market economies shows us; either in...
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Science and Ideology in Economic, Political and Social Thought
Hillinger, Claude - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-2, pp. 1-70
This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...
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Economists, incentives, judgment, and the European CVAR approach to macroeconometrics
Colander, David C. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-9, pp. 1-21
This paper argues that the DSGE approach to macroeconometrics is the dominant approach because it meets the institutional needs of the replicator dynamics of the profession, not because it is necessarily the best way to do macroeconometrics. It further argues that this 'DSGE theory-first'...
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The Pre-Eminence of Theory versus the European CVAR Perspective in Macroeconometric Modeling
Spanos, Aris - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-10, pp. 1-14
The primary aim of the paper is to place current methodological discussions in macroeconometric modeling contrasting the 'theory first' versus the 'data first' perspectives in the context of a broader methodological framework with a view to constructively appraise them. In particular, the paper...
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Konjunkturprognosen und wissenschaftlich-technischer Fortschritt
Dicke, Hugo; Glismann, Hans G. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 82 (2002) 3, pp. 167-169
Wissenschaftliche Prognosen unterscheiden sich von sonstigen Vorhersagen nicht zuletzt dadurch, daß mit ihnen der Anspruch auf systematische Verbesserbarkeit verknüpft wird. Hat sich die Treffsicherheit von Konjunkturprognosen als Folge des wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritts verbessert?
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Haben sich die Konjunkturprognosen des Sachverständigenrates verbessert?
Dicke, Hugo; Glismann, Hans H. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 82 (2002) 12, pp. 736-740
In der Märzausgabe des WIRTSCHAFTSDIENST haben Hugo Dicke und Hans H. Glismann sich mit der Frage befaßt, wie treffsicher die Konjunkturprognosen der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitute sind1. In diesem Beitrag gehen sie der Frage nach, ob der wissen schaftlich-technische...
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Ende der neoklassischen Orthodoxie? Wieso ein methodischer Pluralismus gut täte
Heise, Arne - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 87 (2007) 7, pp. 442-449
Die Wirtschaftswissenschaften in Deutschland werden schon seit langem von einem neoklassischen Mainstream dominiert. Was sind die wesentlichen Grundlagen dieser neoklassischen „Normalwissenschaft“ in der Ökonomie? Wo setzt die Kritik am neoklassischen Paradigma an? Welche alternativen...
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Lucas on the relationship between theory and ideology
De Vroey, Michel - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-4, pp. 1-39
This paper concerns a neglected aspect of Lucas's work: his methodological writings, published and unpublished. Particular attention is paid to his views on the relationship between theory and ideology. I start by setting out Lucas's non-standard conception of theory: to him, a theory and a...
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