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From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa: Economics and Social Sciences in the Division of Academic Work

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The term “heterodox economics” has been in existence for several decades. Recent revival of heterodox economics can be regarded as a growing criticism of economists within the own profession of economics. Modern economics is designed as a one‐world‐capitalism without history and without regional specifications, without institutions, and without real human agents. Heterodox approaches have the aim to underline that different institutions matter, including religion, language, family structures and networks, systems of education, and industrial relations. Taking the discussion within a broader framework of the history of science acknowleges divergencies and convergencies between different approaches in economics that are also in permanent recomposition. The discussion comes up with the interpretation that recent academic developments provide chances for new modes of intellectual reintegration of formerly disparate areas.

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  • Dieter Bögenhold, 2010. "From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa: Economics and Social Sciences in the Division of Academic Work," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 69(5), pages 1566-1590, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:69:y:2010:i:5:p:1566-1590
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2010.00757.x
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