1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910357823603321

Autore

Archibugi Franco

Titolo

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics : Volume II: Selected Testimonies on the Epistemological 'Overturning' of Economic Theory and Policy / / by Franco Archibugi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783319780603

3319780603

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxix, 458 pages)

Disciplina

330.01

Soggetti

Economics - History

Philosophy and social sciences

History of Economic Thought and Methodology

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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, natonal and globals).

Sommario/riassunto

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. .