Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36483 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 13/08
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Dresden
Abstract: 
Economic History and the History of Economic Thought haven been relegated increasingly from the teaching and research curricula of economics in recent years. The paper starts off arguing that this trend is due to the mechanistic ontology of mainstream economics, and it continues setting out an alternative evolutionary ontology expounding how the historical element must and can be integrated into the body of economic theory. Centre stage is a lingua franca composed of analytical terms that are designed to bridge the domains of theoretical and of historical economic analysis. Economists are viewed in their status as observers whose cognitive dispositions as well as social behaviour co-evolve with the environment they inhabit. Further advances in economic theory are seen as being critically dependent on employing an evolutionary approach and on establishing a communication link to economic history and the history of economic thought - which likewise may get essential inspirations from applying that approach.
Subjects: 
Neuroeeconomics
Behavioural Economics
Entscheidungsverhalten
Validierung ökonomischer Modelle
JEL: 
B10
B20
B25
N00
N01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
267.46 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.