TY - JOUR
T1 - Mainstream economics, heterodoxy and academic exclusion
T2 - A review essay
AU - Schiffman, Daniel A.
PY - 2004/11
Y1 - 2004/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Academic exclusion
KW - Economics education
KW - Heterodoxy
KW - Historical specificity
KW - Pluralism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=4844221315&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2004.06.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2004.06.003
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AN - SCOPUS:4844221315
SN - 0176-2680
VL - 20
SP - 1079
EP - 1095
JO - European Journal of Political Economy
JF - European Journal of Political Economy
IS - 4
ER -