Orthogonal Time in Euclidean Three-Dimensional Space: Being an Engineer's...
This paper begins by asking a simple question: can a farmer own and fully utilise precisely five tractors and precisely six tractors at the same time? Of course not. He can own five or he can own six...
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This paper seeks to examine the relationship and the interaction between institutions, policy and the labour market in the light of the ideas of the first generation of institutional economists, who,...
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View ArticleMathematical Analysis as a Source of Mainstream Economic Ideology
The paper contends that neoclassical ideology stems, to a great extent, from mathematical analysis. It is suggested that mainstream economic thought can be comprehensively revisited if both histories...
View ArticleThe Psychological Contributions of Pragmatism and of Original Institutional...
The aim of this work is to illustrate the psychological contributions of Pragmatism and of the Original Institutional Economics (also referred to as OIE or institutionalism), and their relevance for...
View ArticleComment on 'The Empirical Success of Keynesianism' by Donald Gillies
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View ArticleThe Empirical Success of Keynesianism
The main thesis of this paper is that the empirical success of Keynesianism shows it to be scientific. Keynesianism here refers not to a specific theory, but to a paradigm. It is argued that Kuhn's...
View ArticleWine and bottles. Some remarks on “The Two Blades of Occam's Razor in...
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View ArticleThe Two Blades of Occam's Razor in Economics: Logical and Heuristic
This paper is part of the general debate about the need to rethink economics as a human discipline using a heuristic to describe its object, about the need to explicitly reject the positivistic...
View ArticleDeleuze among the Economists: A Short Commentary on Abderrazak Belabes' 'What...
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View ArticleWhat can Economists Learn from Deleuze?
Listening, seeing and reading Gilles Deleuze has had an influence on my thinking more than most of the economic writings I have consulted over the past quarter of a century. This discovery and...
View ArticleThe Self According to Others: Explaining Social Preferences with Social...
In past decades, significant work in behavioural economics has decisively revealed the limitations of the human agency model known as Homo Economicus, whereby humans are purely driven by material...
View ArticleEconomics' Wisdom Deficit and How to Reduce It
As is well understood, the values inherent in the dominant neoclassical economic paradigm are self- interest and optimisation. These are the values that guide individuals and policymakers in advanced...
View ArticleConsensus and Dissension among Economic Science Academics in Mexico
We report general and consensus results of a survey administered to a defined population of economic science academics in Mexico. Our results include insights on economic opinions, scientific aspects...
View ArticlePopperian Hayek or Hayekian Popper?
Friedrich Hayek was a fervent advocate of the methodological specificity of the social sciences. However, given his contact with Karl Popper, several historians and philosophers have characterised his...
View ArticleRelevance of Chaos and Strange Attractors in the Samuelson-Hicks Oscillator
In this paper, we look for the relevance of chaos in the well-known Hicks-Samuelson's oscillator model investigating the endogenous fluctuations of the national income between two limits: full...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Sustainable Development: From Technocracy to...
Mainstream neoclassical economics, as well as heterodox schools, should be regarded as different kinds of 'political economics'. There is no value-free economics. We therefore need to bring democracy...
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