The programming approach and the demise of economics Volume II, Selected testimonies on the epistemological 'overturning' of economic theory /

This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis and providing an alternative to political economy and social sciences, based not on positivism, but on a normative and programming paradigm. Volume II builds on the work presented in Volu...

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Main Author: Archibugi, Franco,
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The programming approach, as futuristic decision and rational utopia
  • 2. The programming approach and the old, unresolved debate of the 'decision theory
  • 3. The programming approach as collective decision-and-action centered analysis (and the 'planning theory movement)
  • 4. The programming approach and the mainstream economic 'general theory
  • 5. The 'programming approach and the Management Sciences
  • 6. The programming approach, the 'theory of reflexivity, the crisis of economics and the future of 'global capitalism (The peculiar contribution of George Soros)
  • 7. Toward a new worldwide strategic and systemic methodology of planning
  • 8. The measures of performance (public and private, economic and social, national and globals).