Personnel economics is a rather young academic (sub-)discipline that applies (micro) economic methodology and insights …

This paper examines the implications of Chicago School economist Edward Lazear's 2000 defense of economics imperialism … operating in a contrary way. I argue that the solution to this dilemma was for neoclassicism to rebuild economics imperialism … sciences can have transformative effects on one another. This latter conception can be associated with a complexity economics …

In educating economists, we should sacrifice some of the more technical aspects of economics (which can be learned … these interdisciplinary studies are given here. In the discussion of the place of mathematics in economics, fuzziness enters … economics, are regarded as a "soft" technology compared with the "hard" technology of the natural sciences, development studies …

My purpose is to appraise the recent critique of theoretical economics by applying the methodological perspective …. Therefore, I start by identifying the main lines of criticism raised against theoretical economics in the aftermath of the post …-2008 global economic crisis: namely, the voices criticizing economics for its unrealistic models, excessive mathematization …

As a social science, economics studies social interactions. What distinguishes it from other social science disciplines … knowledge’. Some regard this methodological foundation of positivist fallibilism as the feature that makes economics the 'queen … science. Interestingly, both critiques and defences of economics often make reference to ideology: defenders claim that …

. Thus two methodological strands in economics disagree with each other: the objectivistic approach favors the methods of …

paper addresses the question as to why, if economics is an empirical science, economists introduce bounds on the rationality …

The discipline of economics can benefit a more explicit, systematic and sustained concern with ontology, that is, with …