Economic science: The challenge of fragmentation

O. Ananyin
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O. Ananyin: HSE University, Moscow, Russia

Journal of the New Economic Association, 2024, vol. 63, issue 2, 193-210

Abstract: Segmentation of economic knowledge tends to transform into its fragmentation and becomes an obstacle for the development of science: it bounds its innovative potential, weakens the connection with practice, and reduces the public authority of economic theory. Hopes for overcoming this trend are often associated with the generality of analytical tools in most social sciences. The paper substantiates the position that the problem of knowledge fragmentation is primarily a problem of barriers between subject areas, while instrumental integration can only facilitate such interactions, but cannot serve a response to the challenge of fragmentation. An alternative strategy is analyzed, it implies an increase in the complexity of knowledge structure, primarily through the development of partial ontologies and "grand theories", providing prerequisites for effective interdisciplinary interactions in the social sciences and intra-disciplinary contacts between the schools within economic science based on different basic ontologies. Specific measures to improve economic education programs aimed at training economists open to interdisciplinary contacts and capable of cooperative work in interdisciplinary teams are proposed.

Keywords: differentiation and integration of sciences; knowledge fragmentation; interdisciplinarity; economic ontologies, economic education; teaching economic theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A12 A20 B41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.31737/22212264_2024_2_193-210

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