The Future of Economics

Four Possible Scenarios

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6108944
AutoresLukáš Kovanda (Prague University of Economics and Business, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume59
Fascículo6
Páginas743-758
Data de publicação2011-12-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitická ekonomie (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-3233 • E-ISSN: 2336-8225
EditoraPrague University of Economics and Business (PUBLISHER • CZ)
DOI10.18267/j.polek.819
OpenAlexW2324233386
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas22

Already during the financial crisis from 2007 through 2009, a growing number of scholars, laymen or media outlets blamed economics as such, at least partially, for the turmoil and subsequent economic malaise. Therefore, the debate concerning future long-term development of economics - or, more precisely, prevailing economic theory - has been intensifying. The following text outlines four possible scenarios - synthetic, evolutionary, reactionary, and revolutionary - of such a development. Each scenario is connected with a methodologist of economics or a methodologist of science, who represent it, for it is right the domain of methodology or/and philosophy of science wherein it is necessary to look for an ideological background belonging to different research traditions in economics as well as for an understanding of determining stances and worldviews of the traditions' proponents

Applied economics · Classical economics · Economic methodology · Economic science · Economics · Epistemology · Heterodox economics · Ideology · Mainstream economics · Neoclassical economics · Philosophy of science · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Reactionary · Social science · Sociology · Economic theories and models · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Philosophy