Disciplined reasoning: Styles of reasoning and the mainstream-heterodoxy divide in Swedish economics
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...…of thinking.23 In such suppression, methodology is an important tool 23 The authors centre their account on the elusive concept of “elite of the profession” as the central actor in the process of intellectual change, a notion they claim is “understood by those in the 56 (Colander et al. 2004:493)....
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...236 As David Colander (Colander 2005; Klamer and Colander 1989) notes in a follow-up to his well-known study (with Klamer) of elite graduate programmes in economics in the United States, a few decades ago doctoral students could sometimes complain about the lack of courses in the history of thought or philosophy of economics, whereas after the turn of the millennium, these subjects were not even missed by surveyed students....
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...Davis, Tony Lawson, Frederic Lee and others were all involved in the debates around the question of defining and understanding heterodox economics and the mainstream-heterodoxy divide, which was covered in chapter 2 (Backhouse 2000, 2004; Colander 2000; Colander et al. 2004; Davis 2006, 2008; Lawson 2006, 2012, 2013; Lee 2009)....
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...…to Colander.12 This is also clear when one looks at the purpose of classifying something as orthodox: “in economics at least, the name for the orthodox school usually comes from a dissenter, who is opposed orthodox ideas, not from a supporter of the orthodox ideas” (Colander et al. 2004:491)....
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...…of neoclassical economics as based on three metaaxioms, as an argument against the thesis of a new mainstream pluralism.20 Davis (2006) as well as Colander et al. (2004) claim that any list of necessary core features of neoclassical economics will soon encounter a modern approach that breaches…...
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