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quantification. The purpose of our contribution is to analyze the impact of such quantitative indices on the further development of … science with a special emphasis on economics. In this case we observe a multitude of interesting effects on both, the level of …
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Economics has always had a difficult relationship with literature. Although early economists such as Adam Smith adopted … a literary approach, pressures soon emerged to develop formal theory imitating natural sciences. A key aim was to attain …, economics had become professionalised into a self-contained discipline expressed in mathematical language and making little …
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Economics as a discipline is currently in disarray. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, academic experts …, students, commentators, practitioners and politicians all questioned the status of academic economics and many called for a … teaching. Furthermore, economic policy based on mainstream economics is still prevalent. It is therefore necessary to consider …
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Founded fifty years ago, the History of Economics Society served in its early years to support scholarship and teaching … in the history of economic thought. But the decades long removal of history from economics departments and graduate …
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methodological pluralism in modern economics. …, die andererseits selbst in Zeiten der Krise der Theorie anscheinend nicht nachhaltig in ein öffentliches Bewusstsein …Economics as a branch of social science is marked by considerable inconsistency, but this fact is largely beyond public …
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shows that the Modern Money Theory approach is particularly useful as a starting point for framing that emphasizes use of …
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economics and strengthen the argument for a revolution in economic thinking. This paper describes common criticisms of the … distinction is made between different sociological spheres where economics plays a role such as teaching, research and the typical … alternative, the vision of a Pluralist Economics is illustrated and described in terms of five characteristic foundations …
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Wirtschaftswissenschaft implizit beruht. Unter anderem wird konstatiert, dass in den Lehrbüchern kein aufgeklärtes und (selbst …
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The paper approaches the theme of the relatively higher level of pluralism in Brazilian economics, when compared to …. Afterwards, we present a review of the national literature concerning the academic production in economics, showing how some … maintain incentives to pluralism, besides correcting many problems in the ranking. …
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After the global financial crisis, hopes were high that there would be a pluralisation of the economics discipline and … a boost for heterodox economics that challenged dominant economic models. However, mainstream economics once again …'s new book on this issue has sparked fresh discussions about the stunted development of heterodox economics and proposals …
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