Pluralism in Economics

Robert Garnett ()
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Robert Garnett: Department of Economics, Texas Christian University

No 201201, Working Papers from Texas Christian University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Pluralism has been a rallying cry for openness and broad-mindedness in economics since the early 1980s, when heterodox economists’ long-standing challenges to the methodological and epistemological monism of post-World War II economics were joined and extended by “old Chicago” McCloskey (1983). Fortified by this extended base of support, the pluralist campaign reached new heights in 1992, when the American Economic Review published a petition signed by forty-four leading economists, including four Nobel laureates, calling for “a new spirit of pluralism in economics, involving critical conversation and tolerant communication between different approaches” and demanding that this new pluralist spirit be “reflected in the character of scientific debate, in the range of contributions in its journals, and in the training and hiring of economists” (Hodgson, Mäki, and McCloskey 1992, xxv).

Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2012-01
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