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2017
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ICAE Working Paper Series No. 69
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Revised version January 2018
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Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE), Linz
Zusammenfassung: 
From the two premises that (1) economies are complex systems and (2) the accumulation of knowledge about reality is desirable, I derive the conclusion that pluralism with regard to economic research programs is a more viable position to hold than monism. To substantiate this claim I discuss an epistemological framework of how scholars study their objects of inquiry and relate their models to reality. Furthermore, I argue that given the current institutions of our scientific system, economics self-organizes towards a state of scientific unity. Since such a state is epistemologically inferior to a state of plurality, critical intervention is desirable.
Schlagwörter: 
Complexity
Pluralism
Epistemology
Cumulative Causation
JEL: 
A1
A2
B4
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