The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics - Franco Archibugi

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics

Volume II: Selected Testimonies on the Epistemological 'Overturning' of Economic Theory and Policy
Buch | Hardcover
XXIX, 458 Seiten
2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-78059-7 (ISBN)
106,99 inkl. MwSt

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.

Professor Franco Archibugi is the Founder and Chairman of the Planning Studies Centre in Rome, Italy. Prior to this he taught economics at the University of Florence, Italy and planning at the Universities of Calabria, Palermo, and Naples, Italy. He studied history and philosophy at the Universities of Rome and Heidelberg, and economics at the London School of Economics. He is the author of many books and papers on socio-economic, environmental and urban planning published in Italian, English and other languages.

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).




Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XXIX, 458 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 760 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte Decision Theory • Determinist approach • Epistemology of economics • Frisch • leontief • Mises • Planning economics • Political and social governance • Positivist approach • Praxeology • tinbergen
ISBN-10 3-319-78059-X / 331978059X
ISBN-13 978-3-319-78059-7 / 9783319780597
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