Format:
1 online resource (89 pages)
Edition:
1 Edition
ISBN:
9781000632606
Series Statement:
Economics and Humanities Ser.
Content:
Mapping Mainstream Economics: Genealogical Foundations of Alternativity seeks to establish a definition of the mainstream, and by extension the alternatives to it, by adopting a genealogical approach: tracing the methodological development of the economic mainstream through its ancestry.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: a genealogical approach to alternativity -- 2 Today's mainstream in four genealogical steps -- From political to analytical economics -- Economics before neoclassical dominance -- The welfare definition of economics -- The practical definition of economics -- Robbins' scarcity-based definition of economics -- Robbins' impulse: the theoretical core of neoclassical economics -- On the boundaries of Robbins' economic analysis -- How the nature of economics produced its neoclassical science -- Toward a logical empiricist economics? -- Searching for a philosophical-scientific foundation of economics -- Blaug's impulse: falsification in economics -- Historical and rational reconstructions -- The claim of scientific progress: economics according to absolutism -- How falsification challenged neoclassical economics as a science -- Consolidation of neoclassical economics -- The painful discrepancy between methodological standards and economics -- Hausman's impulse: approximate laws instead of falsification and predictions -- From an external philosophy of science to a supply source of tools -- The expansion of the mainstream in economics as an external shock -- The decline of neoclassical economics -- The expansion of mainstream economics -- The limits of pluralism in economics -- How to consolidate the mainstream, again? -- How diversity saves objectivity -- A new practical definition of economics -- A brief recap: four genealogical steps -- Today's mainstream as practical economics: a meta-methodological perspective -- 3 Genealogical outlook: after today's mainstream -- Initial position: the consolidated mainstream -- From Blaug to Lapidus -- Lapidus' impulse: meta-description to grasp innovation -- Toward a self-abolition of the new mainstream?.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032262192
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Schäfer, Georg N. Mapping mainstream economics London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 ISBN 9781032262192
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032262208
Language:
English
Author information:
Schuster, Sören E.
Author information:
Schäfer, Georg N.
