Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists' engagements with other disciplines — e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

This a review essay of Debt to Society by Miranda Joseph.The essay connects Miranda Joseph's book Debt to Society to concerns within heterodox economics. It is suggested that it is most adequate to see debt as a process, and especially as a debt-credit process. The paper makes this argument in...

This paper examines the relation of the concept of space to the individual conception in economics. It argues the neoclassical conception is tied to Euclidian space, and that a evolutionary-complexity-computational conception requires a non-Euclidian understanding of space. The paper...

Recognizing and understanding the seminal role that the Kennedy tax cuts and those 15 years of inflation played in the cascade of deregulation and class entrenchment that put us where we are is necessary for plotting appropriate course corrections, but it is not sufficient.Identification of the...

We address the challenge of attempting to advance a strong and consistently subjectivist view of economic agency without simultaneously undermining the possibility of providing a coherent account of social institutions and socio-economic order. The argument is presented as a case study and...

Luigi Pasinetti’s work has deeply affected modern economic theory. His papers on the Cambridge Capital Controversy are world renowned. But he has made many other contributions to the economic debates of the last half century, offering not only detailed criticisms of mainstream economic theory,...

This paper is concerned with defining the characteristics of behavioral economics (BE), identifying the different strands of BE, and carefully comparing BE to mainstream or orthodox economics. An important question here is: Is BE an economic school of thought? It is noteworthy that BE is not...

Journals moderate knowledge activity in economics. The activity of publishing article in professional journal forms significant part of knowledge output. Output of economics articles has been growing over the time. We examine an important question: Is there any case of institutional or location...

This paper is a review essay of Jayme Lemke and Vlad’s Tarko’s excellent edited volume, 'Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School: Building a New Approach to Policy and the Social Sciences'. It summarises the contents of the volume and uses them as the basis for reflections on various...