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Pluralism in economics : a public good or a public bad?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2004
academicviewpoint pluralism can be understood as the outcome ofcompetition and specialization in the search for new ideasthat can deal …
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Economic Pluralism in the Study of Wage Discrimination : A Note
Drydakis, Nick - 2018
Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be … relations towards minority workers. Pluralism might be jeopardised if there is a limited desire to engage with less …
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Economic pluralism in the study of wage discrimination : a note
Drydakis, Nick - 2018
Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be … relations towards minority workers. Pluralism might be jeopardised if there is a limited desire to engage with less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795527
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Economic pluralism in the study of wage discrimination : a note
Drydakis, Nick - 2018
Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a … generate discriminatory wages. Each cause deserves corresponding policy action. Given pluralism, wage discrimination might be … relations towards minority workers. Pluralism might be jeopardised if there is a limited desire to engage with less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130653
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Pluralism, the Lucas critique, and the integration of macro and micro
Skott, Peter - 2012
Mainstream macroeconomics has pursued 'micro founded' models based on the explicit optimization by representative agents. The result has been a long and wasteful detour. But elements of the Lucas critique are relevant, also for heterodox economists. Challenging common heterodox views on...
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Complex Individuals : The Individual in Non-Euclidian Space
Davis, John B. - 2008
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...
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Introduction to : 'Transforming Economics - Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project'
Lewis, Paul A. - 2016
This paper is an introduction to an edited volume entitled, 'Transforming Economics: Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project.' It outlines the project of critical realism in economics, describing how the latter's emphasis on social ontology shapes its approach to economic methodology and...
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McCarthyism and the Mathematization of Economics
Weintraub, E. Roy - 2016
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,...
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The Scientific Practices of Economics and the Emergence of Behavioral Economics
Tomer, John F. - 2016
Behavioral economics emerged in the second half of the 20th century and has become an important social science research area. Some have argued that the emergence of behavioral economics (BE) amounts to a scientific revolution. That is, they argue that BE is becoming or has become the new,...
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Shackle on Choice, Imagination and Creativity : Hayekian Foundations
Lewis, Paul A. - 2016
This paper develops a response to some of the criticisms that have been made of G.L.S. Shackle's analysis of human decision-making because of its reliance on a Cartesian account of the mind. It is argued that the basis for a response can be found in the work on theoretical psychology developed...
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