Full employment is normally associated with structural rigidities that may result in production bottlenecks and inflationary pressures. Flexibility or elasticity of the production system is therefore a desirable feature of an economic system. Many standard models, however, exhibit flexibility...

Ecological economics is a transdisciplinary alternative to mainstream environmental economics. Attempts have been made to outline a methodology for ecological economics and it is probably fair to say that, at this point, ecological economics takes a "pluralistic" approach. There are, however,...

Following up on the suggestions of Adolph Lowe, the paper investigates the potential contribution of pragmaticist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of "retroduction" (and especially Norwood Hanson's elaborations of that concept), mathematician George Polya's work on heuristics,...