Economics and interdisciplinarity: an open-systems approach

Vítor Neves ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2017, vol. 37, issue 2, 343-362

Abstract: This is a text on economics and interdisciplinarity. It takes account of the plurality of meanings that the practice of interdisciplinarity has assumed in economics, discusses why interdisciplinarity is essential to the study of the economy and analyzes two models of what interdisciplinarity should be in economics. Reference is also made to the obstacles inherent in the practice of interdisciplinarity. Its ultimate goal is to show why the economy (as an object of study), being an open system, cannot be left to economists alone requiring, instead, a pluralistic, political economy understanding of the ‘economic’. JEL Classification: A12; B4.

Keywords: Economics; interdisciplinarity; open systems; connections; pluralism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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