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Pluralism in economics: Inquiries into a Daedalean concept

Heise, Arne - 2016

. 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 …

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Pluralismus in der Ökonomik - verpasste Chance, überfälliges Programm oder normalwissenschaftliche Realität?

Quaas, Friedrun - 2020

The pluralism debate in economics that has been going on for two decades has not yet been able to provide an exhaustive … answer to the question of how to deal meaningfully with the phenomenon of a real plurality of paradigms, theories and methods …

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Comparing economic theories or: Pluralism in economics and the need for a comparative approach to scientific research programmes

Heise, Arne - 2020

Pluralism in economics appears to be a double-edged sword: we need more than one theory to grasp and explain the entire … 'objective knowledge' in the singular of the 'one world one truth' conception. Therefore, pluralism is often equated with … relativism and obscurantism. In this article, I will explore both the demand for pluralism and the fear of relativism and …

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Culture, Society and Economic Theory

Jackson, William A. - In: Review of Political Economy 5 (1993) 4, pp. 453-469

Ever since the beginnings of classical political economy in the early nineteenth century, economics has faced culturally based criticism from a long line of literary authors. This paper argues that the old literary criticisms are still relevant and can provide useful guidelines for economic...

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"We need to offer something better to the scholars of the future": Some thoughts on the "Hodgson debate"

Heise, Arne - 2022

community of economists embraces paradigmatic pluralism as part of their academic culture, or if regulations are put in place to …

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Beyond stimulus versus austerity: pluralist capacity building in macroeconomics

van Staveren, Irene - In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: … 14 (2017) 2, pp. 267-281

In this article a pluralist teaching method in macroeconomics is explained with examples. It demonstrates why pluralist macro teaching is important and that it is feasible even at the introductory level. It shows how it can be carried out using five key economic theories: social economics,...

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Ideology and pluralism: A German view

Heise, Arne - 2019

As a social science, economics studies social interactions. What distinguishes it from other social science disciplines is, firstly, its focus on interactions involving the management of scarce resources and, secondly, its conception of itself as generating traceable, verifiable findings that...

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Inequality and stagnation by policy design: Mainstream denialism and its dengerous political consequences

Palley, Thomas I. - 2019

unintended, but they are still there and show the dangerous consequences of the death of pluralism in economics. The critique of …

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Who is (your) Geoff Harcourt? Afterword two on The Man

Cohen, Avi Jonathan - 2021

In 2022, Cambridge University Press is publishing a 50th anniversary edition of Geoff Harcourt's Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital. There will be two afterwords, preceded with this introduction: You have before you CUP's 50th anniversary edition of Geoff Harcourt's Some...

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Orthodoxer Mainstream und Heterodoxe Alternativen : eine Analyse der ökonomischen Wissenschaftslandschaft

Quaas, Friedrun - 2014

phenomenon of pluralism is only rudimentarily developed and the discourse between the different approaches is proceeding as … methodological pluralism in modern economics. …

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