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In the last years, non-linear dynamics and complexity gained an important role in economics. Non-linear models are the … historical evolution of these new approaches to economics. In particular, we emphasize the role of mathematical tools that have … been applied to formalize dynamic problems in economics …
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In this paper two basic policy paradigms are distinguished: updated liberalism that is fully aware of the limits to markets and therefore aims at their active regulation, and neo-liberalism that is based on market fundamentalism and aims at privatisation, deregulation and budgetary austerity....
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The aim of this paper is to systematically enquire into the relationship Robbins sets in his writings - prior to the Essay and further brought out in several subsequent works - between 'economic science' and 'political economy' in order to understand the role of each in the work of the...
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This paper addresses a central question of the experimental turn in economics: how a relatively small group of … experimental economists in the 1970s and 1980s managed to convince editors and referees of leading economics journals of the merits … of the experimental method with the consequence that by the early 1990s experimental economics research became a standard …
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Is economics a science? Answering this question is not only necessary for philosophical clarity, but also crucial for … light of solid philosophical ground, I then discuss the practice and methodology of modern economics. The answer to the …
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The Cambridge Journal of Economics witnessed an important debate between Mark Pernecky and Paul Wojick on the one side … reconcile Pernecky and Wojick’s claim that Keynes’s new economics of the General Theory and Walrasian General Equilibrium are …
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The Cambridge Journal of Economics witnessed an important debate between Mark Pernecky and Paul Wojick on the one side … reconcile Pernecky and Wojick’s claim that Keynes’s new economics of the General Theory and Walrasian General Equilibrium are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416106
This short paper examines a possible connection between religion and economics in terms of the parallelism between the … Homo economicus doctrine and the individual soul doctrine. The paper explores whether resistance to pluralism in economics … economics is not a matter of economists holding methodological views about economics practice that are contrary to pluralism …
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This paper presents the story of the attempts made by Hans Apel, after a Professor at Bridgeport University, to defend academic freedom through strengthening the right of instructors to choose their own textbooks. The story began when his university was attacked and threatened with losing...
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The thesis put forward in this paper is that Herbert A. Simon was a distinctive theoretician of decentralized decisional systems alternative to the market, from planning to organizations. This issue emerges from the convergence of four perspectives, each with a different role and influence on...
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