Structural changes in economics during the last fifty years

Sudhanshu Mishra ()

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Abstract: This essay portrays the major currents in recent economic thinking against the orthodoxy and dogmatism of neoclassical economics. It places behavioral economics, experimental economics, evolutionary economics, ecological economics, new institutional economics, agent-based computational economics and post-autistic economics vis-à-vis the classical and the neoclassical economics. It concludes that we may expect a synthesis of all these strands of economic thinking in the near future that will replace neoclassical economics from the citadel of mainstream. Teaching of these strands of new economics has already begun in many universities, although in an un-integrated manner. However, until the neoclassical microeconomics and macroeconomics are replaced by their alternatives and necessary as well as convincing tools of economic analysis are developed, neoclassicism would not give way to modern economics.

Keywords: Behavioral; experimental; evolutionary; ecological; new institutional; agent-based computational; post-autistic; classical; neoclassical, economics; bounded rationality; heterodox; individualism; pluralism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B15 B20 B25 B29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09-17
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cmp, nep-evo, nep-his, nep-hpe and nep-pke
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