Mainstream economics, heterodoxy and academic exclusion: a review essay |
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Authors: | Daniel A Schiffman |
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Institution: | Department of Economics and Business Administration, College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel 44837, Israel |
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Abstract: | Does the mainstream of economic thinking and analysis tend systematically to exclude ideas and approaches that could enrich the field, and, as a consequence, have important questions and issues been shunted aside for nonobjective reasons? Two recent volumes by heterodox economists that address these questions are Geoffrey Hodgson's How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science, and Steve Keen's Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor of the Social Sciences. I evaluate their claims of academic exclusion and assess the current state of (selective) pluralism within mainstream economics. |
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Keywords: | Academic exclusion Pluralism Economics education Historical specificity Heterodoxy |
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