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Title
The programming approach and the demise of economics. Volume II, Selected testimonies on the epistemological 'overturning' of economic theory / Franco Archibugi.
ISBN
9783319780603 (electronic book)
3319780603 (electronic book)
9783319780597
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-78
Call Number
HB72 .A73 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.15
Summary
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 Volume I to explore oppositions to the traditional and conventional teaching of economics, and presents testimonies that are favourable to a trend towards a programming approach, thereby giving substance to the epistemological 'overturning' of conventional analysis. Such oppositions studied include the work of Ludvig von Mises and his theory of praxeology; Ian Tinbergen and Wassily Leontif's preference for 'planning' over 'forecasting science'; Bruno de Finetti and Daniel Bell's support for the base of 'utopia' in economics; the trend from the 'theory of planning' towards the 'methodology of planning, by Andreas Faludi; neoclassic curiosity about the 'multi-purposes approach' and 'non-economic commodities' as investigated by Walter Isard, as well as theories expressed by Herbert Simon, Robert Lucas, George Soros and Mark Blaug. Volume III takes studies further and presents a concrete and practical example of how to build a Planning Accounting Framework (PAF), as associated with Frisch's 'plan-frame' (explored in Volume II), to demonstrate the extent to which decisions and negotiations can be routed in the social sciences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 11, 2019).
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 approachand 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, natonal and globals).
