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This article has adopted an open discourse in addressing pertinent concerns about the scientific existence of economics … as a discipline. In doing so, some (critical) Filosofia arguments have been provided in ensuring that a well balanced … tant que discipline. Ce faisant, certains arguments (critiques) de Filosofia ont été fourni pour assurer qu'une approche …
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Standard histories of economics usually treat the "marginal revolution" of the midnineteenth century as both … supplanting the "classical" economics of Smith and Ricardo and as advancing the idea of economics as a mathematical science. The … marginalists - especially Jevons and Walras - viewed Cournot's (1838) book on mathematical economics as a seminal work on which …
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in nature. Moreover, while drawing on the history of economics and the history of physics, I argue that the history of a … the history of economics and economic history. I distinguish my approach from two closely related positions that emphasize … learning from the past for scientific purposes. In my conclusion, I argue that that if economics departments continue to …
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This paper introduces a framework to facilitate an interdisciplinary analysis of 'competition'. While such an interdisciplinary analysis can be justified by referencing the various fields of social and economic life in which 'competition' is important, three challenges are found to aggravate...
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This paper uses the theory of complex systems as a conceptual lens through which to compare the work of Friedrich Hayek … theory of complex systems as a framework for comparing the Hayekian and Ostromian approaches will be shown to serve two other … purposes. First, it can be used to show how one widely-criticised aspect of Hayek's theory of society as a complex system …
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, reflected in the title. Initial surveys of post-Keynesian economics defined it in term of the Keynesian, Kaleckian and Sraffian …' known as post-Keynesian economics. Serious and irreconcilable methodological differences exist between Sraffians and post …
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Traditionally, students of economics have often been told that it is a non-experimental science. Using a quantitative … and qualitative analysis of introductory economics textbooks, we track the historical evolution of this rhetoric from 1970 … experimentation in economics. Remarks that experiments are impossible in economics have been (almost) eliminated only this decade …
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The state of contemporary economics had been a subject of discussion even before the most recent global financial …. Nevertheless, there is neither a consensus over the form of pluralism that is required (whether this is a theory, method, or …
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This paper conducts a systematic comparison of behavioral economics’s challenges to the standard accounts of economic … a broad and self-contained picture of how behavioral economics is changing the mainstream of economics. …
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I survey the so-called "new neoclassical synthesis" literature (that emerged allegedly as a synthesis between the real business cycle and the new Keynesian literatures) and its ubiquitous dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DGSE) model, emphasizing the current practices in it. This includes...
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