The construction of a metaparadigm for economic science
a proposal for a pluralist framework
Keywords:
Metaparadigm; Pluralism; Framework.
Abstract
From the occurrence of calls for a pluralist economy more than four decades ago and the difficulties encountered in its implementation, given the ambiguities about what exactly is meant by this concept, this article seeks, through a framework, to demonstrate how a pluralist metaparadigm can resolve this incipient. The paths to its conception pass through the analysis of the paradigmatic dimensions of the neoclassical, post-Keynesian and evolutionist schools of thought. Based on this perspective, it is intended to justify a descriptive procedure for the term paradigm, in addition to elaborating a background of the potential of pluralistic thinking for scientific research. In short, the approach through a pluralist metaparadigm demonstrates that it is possible to replace the specific idiosyncrasies of a paradigm à la Kuhn with pluralist principles.
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DAVIS, J. “Samuels on Methodological Pluralism in Economics”. Department of Economic, Working Paper 2012-01, Marquette University, Milwaukee, 2012.
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DEQUECH, David. “Neoclassical, Mainstream, Orthodox, and Heterodox Economics”. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, v. 30, n. 2, p. 279-302, 2007-2008.
DOBUSCH, Leonhard; KAPELLER, Jakob. “Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science? New Answers to Veblen’s Old Question”. Journal of Economic Issues, 43, 4, p. 867-898, 2009.
DOBUSCH, Leonhard; KAPELLER, Jakob. “Heterodox United vs. Mainstream City? Sketching a Framework for Interested Pluralism in Economics”. Journal of Economic Issues, 46, 4, p. 1035-1057, 2012.
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FULLBROOK, Edward. The crisis in economics - the post-autistic economics movement: the first 600 days. London; New York: Routledge, 2003.
GARNETT, Robert. “Paradigms and Pluralism in Heterodox Economics”. Review of Political Economy, 18, 4, p. 521-546, 2006.
GARNETT, Robert; OLSEN, Erik K.; STARR, Martha. Economic Pluralism. London: Routledge, 2010.
GIERE, Ronald N. Science without Laws. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1999.
HODGSON, Geoffrey; MÄKI, Uskali; MCCLOSKEY, Donald. “A Plea for a Rigorous and Pluralistic Economics”. American Economic Review, v. 82, n. 2, p. xxv, 1992.
HOLCOMBE, Randall G. “Pluralism versus Heterodoxy in Economics and the Social Sciences”. The Journal of Philosophical Economics, v. 1 (2), p. 51-72, 2008.
HOPKINS, Barbara. “The Institutional Barriers to Heterodox Pluralism”. Review of Radical Political Economics, v. 42, 3, p. 338-343, 2010.
KIM, H. S. “An integrative framework for conceptualizing clients: A proposal for a nursing perspective in the new century”. Nursing Science Quarterly, v. 13, n. 1, p. 37-40, 2000.
KING, John E. “Post-Keynesians and Others”. Review of Political Economy, v. 24 (2), p. 305-319, 2012.
KLAES, M. “Evolutionary Economics: In Defence Of ‘Vagueness’”. Journal of Economic Methodology, v. 11, n. 3, p. 359-376, 2004.
KUHN, Thomas S. A estrutura das revoluções científicas. 8ª ed. São Paulo: Perspectiva, [1962] 2003.
LARUE, Louis. “A defense of reasonable pluralism in economics”. Journal of Economic Methodology, v. 1, p. 1-15, 2022.
LAVOIE, Marc. “Do Heterodox Theories Have Anything in Common? A Post-Keynesian Point of View”. European Journal of Economics: Intervention, v. 3, 1, p. 87-112, 2006.
LAWSON, Tony. “The Nature of Heterodox Economics”. Cambridge Journal of Economics, v. 30, n. 4, p. 483-505, 2006.
LEE, Frederic S. “Pluralism in Heterodox Economics”. In: Economic Pluralism, (eds) Robert Garnett; Erik K. Olsen; Martha Starr, p. 19-35. London: Routledge, 2010.
MÄKI, U. “The one world and the many theories”. In: Salanti e Scrapanti (Org.) Pluralism in Economics: new prespectives in history and methodology. Cheltenham: EAEPE & Edward Elgar, p.37-47, 1997.
MARQUÉS, Gustavo; WEISMAN, Diego. “Not anything goes: a case for a restricted pluralism”. The Journal of Philosophical Economics, v. 2 (1), p. 115-136, 2008.
MELEIS, Afaf Ibrahim. Theoretical nursing: Development and progress (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011.
MORGAN, Mary; RUTHERFORD, Malcolm. From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism. Annual Supplement to Volume 30. History of Political Economy. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
NELSON, Julie A. “Confronting the Science/Value Split: notes on Feminist Economics, Institutionalism, Pragmatism and Process Thought”. Cambridge Journal of Economics, v. 27 (1), p. 49-64, 2003.
POPPER, K. R. “The Myth of the Framework”: In Defence of Science and Rationality. Routledge: London, 1994.
POPPER, K. R. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. London: Routledge, [1935] 2002.
SAMUELS, Warren J. “Methodological Pluralism”. In Handbook of Economic Methodology, (eds.) John B. Davis; D. Wade Hands; Uskali Mäki, p. 300-303. Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar, 1998.
SAMUELS, Warren J. “Institutional Economics after One Century”. Journal of Economic Issues, v. 34 (2), p. 305-315, 2000.
SENT, Esther-Mirjam. “Pleas for Pluralism”. In Real World Economics: a Post-Autistic Economics Reader, edited by Edward Fullbrook, p. 177-184. London, 2006.
STERMAN, John D.; WITTENBERG, Jason. “Path Dependence, Competition, and Succession in the Dynamics of Scientific Revolution”. Organization Science, v. 10, 3, p. 322-341, 1999.
VAN BOUWEL, Jeroen. “Towards a Framework for Pluralism in Economics”. Post Autistic Economics Review, n. 31, 2005.
WALLER, William T. “Is Convergence among Heterodox Schools Possible, Meaningful, or Desirable?” In Economic Pluralism, Robert Garnett, Erik K. Olsen and Martha Starr (eds.), p. 48-60. London: Routledge, 2010.
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2024-09-30
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de Carvalho Azevedo Anache, M. (2024). The construction of a metaparadigm for economic science. A Economia Em Revista - AERE, 31(3). https://doi.org/10.4025/econrev.v31i3.69143
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