The role of emergence for a complexity approach in economics – A reply to Olivér Kovács

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21282010
AutoresJörg J Dötsch (0000-0002-7026-3813, Chair of Economic Policy, Andrássy University Budapest, Pollack Mihály tér 3, Budapest, H-1088, Hungary, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume72
Fascículo2
Páginas249-269
Data de publicação2022-06-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoActa Oeconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0001-6373 • E-ISSN: 1588-2659
EditoraAkademiai Kiado Zrt. (PUBLISHER • HU)
DOI10.1556/032.2022.00014
OpenAlexW4283317623
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas36

This paper provides a theoretical clarification of an important question raised by Olivér Kovács in Acta Oeconomica 69 (4) and points out further problems and possibilities. It clarifies what role considerations of complexity theory have played in the economic sciences so far and why. Focussing on the complementary phenomenon of emergence, the contribution shows where the limits of this approach lie within the discipline and to what extent serious problems of demarcation arise with regard to other disciplines of the social sciences. Accordingly, this paper aims to demonstrate the conditions under which economics can use concepts of emergence in a fruitful way

Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Phenomenon · Positive economics · Sociology · Economic and Technological Innovation · Economic Theory and Institutions · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism