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The Short Rise and Long Fall of Heterodox Economics in Germany After the 1970s: Explorations in a Scientific Field of Power and Struggle
- Source :
- Journal of Economic Issues. 50:1105-1130
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- In the context of ongoing criticisms of the lack of pluralism in economics, the present article aims to discuss the development of ‘heterodox’ economics since the 1970s. Following Lakatos’s concept of scientific research programs (srp), and concentrating on the situation in Germany, the article will discuss classifications of economics, and will specify the understanding of diversity in the light of ‘axiomatic variations’ of the economic mainstream. This will form the basis for the subsequent description of the development of heterodoxy in Germany, with special reference to the founding of new universities and the reform movements in the 1970s. It can be shown that the heterodox scene flourished in this period, but that this pluralization remained fragmented and short-lived; by the 1980s at the latest heterodoxy was again on its way to marginalization. The history of heterodoxy in Germany thus presents itself as an unequal ‘battle of the paradigms,’ and can only be told as the story of a failure.
- Subjects :
- Heterodoxy
Pluralism in economics
Economics and Econometrics
Philosophy of science
Sociology of scientific knowledge
05 social sciences
Mainstream economics
Context (language use)
Neoclassical economics
General Business, Management and Accounting
0506 political science
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Mainstream
Sociology
050207 economics
Heterodox economics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1946326X and 00213624
- Volume :
- 50
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Economic Issues
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7615e99ac85c7310754298798037318a