Economics as a polymorphic discursive construct: heterodoxy and pluralism
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...Difficulties with economics when learning English for economics or when discussing economics in a foreign language show how culturally specific, and dominant, the language of economics is (Llopis and Sánchez-Lafuente, 2009; Pilkington, 2012)....
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...The specific characteristics of economics as a language have been detailed in the literature for at least some of its forms (Goldschmidt and Szmrecsanyi, 2007; Pilkington, 2012)....
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...This approach has far-reaching consequences for the ontological debate on the nature of economics (Lawson, 1997, 2006)....
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...Our perspective (mathematics viewed both as a discursive device and a human construct) constitutes a substantial deviation from Lawson (1997, 2006, 2009), who overemphasizes the non-suitability of mathematical models, on ontological grounds, rather than their critical linguistic evaluation as…...
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...Various authors have attempted to define heterodox economics with regard to its object (Potts, 2000; Lawson, 2009), its ontology (Lawson, 1997, 2006, 2009), or its complexity (Colander, 2009)....
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...Hence, Brigham and Ehrhardt (2002) have published a finance textbook that clearly distinguishes between the financial meaning (sources of long-term funds) and the economic one (physical assets used for productive purposes)....
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