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

• Autore: Archibugi Franco
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxix, 458 pages)
• Disciplina: 330.01
• Soggetto topico: Economics - History; Philosophy and social sciences; History of Economic Thought and Methodology; Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• 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. .
• Titolo autorizzato: The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics
• ISBN: 9783319780603; 3319780603
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910357823603321
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