Economics and interdisciplinarity

An Open-Systems Approach

Bibliographic Data

ID4368968
AuthorsVítor Neves (0000-0002-3540-0034, University of Coimbra, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume37
Issue2
Pages343-362
Publication date2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBrazilian Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0101-3157 • E-ISSN: 1809-4538
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0101-31572017v37n02a05
OpenAlexW2626405141
SCIELO_PIDS0101-31572017000200343
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

This is a text on economics and interdisciplinarity. It takes account of the plurality of meanings that the practice of interdisciplinarity has assumed in economics, discusses why interdisciplinarity is essential to the study of the economy and analyzes two models of what interdisciplinarity should be in economics. Reference is also made to the obstacles inherent in the practice of interdisciplinarity. Its ultimate goal is to show why the economy (as an object of study), being an open system, cannot be left to economists alone requiring, instead, a pluralistic, political economy understanding of the 'economic

Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Object (grammar · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism

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