Monism in modern science: The case of (micro-)economics

Arbeitspapier

This elaboration starts by deciphering modern science as a social subsystem being loosely coupled to the rest of society (section 2.1). Additionally, the way in which modern (monistic) economics was generated within this subsystem will be sketched (section 2.2). This will be contrasted with the views that this monism would have been eroded in recent times due to imports from other sciences into economics. Conclusions as regards the necessity as well as the mode of pluralism will be drawn from this discussion (section 2.3). Picking up the disputable complexity reductions involved in the dominating (monistic) approach in economics other ways to deal with complexity inherent in the economy will be dealt with in section 3. Here a stepwise exit from the established standard approach in economics is suggested for the microeconomic syllabus consisting in the first step of an introductory pluralistic course and in the second step of a heterodox advanced course. Conclusions and perspectives resulting from such an approach are discussed in the final section.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper Serie ; No. Ök-49

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; General Economics: General ; Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines ; Sociology of Economics ; Economic Education and Teaching of Economics: General ; History of Economic Thought since 1925: General ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Other ; Microeconomics: General
• Thema: Monism ; science ; microconomics ; pluralism ; neoclassical economics

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Beckenbach, Frank
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Cusanus Hochschule, Institut für Ökonomie und Institut für Philosophie
• (wo): Bernkastel-Kues
• (wann): 2019

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/206871
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ