A "gung-ho" Approach Towards Sophic Economy

Nikolay Bogatzky ()

Economic Alternatives, 2017, issue 1, 160-186

Abstract: The object of this study has been the Sophic Economy of Sergei Bulgakov � an alternative and valuable philosophical-economic doctrine. At the beginning, facts-examples have been identified in a contemporary, social and purposely localized context (contemporary Italian society), demonstrating a certain potential sensibility towards the idea of Sophic Economy. Then, Bulgakov�s thought has been expounded with a purposeful tone instead of the critical-purposeful frame originally used by Bulgakov himself in the volume Philosophy of Economy: the world as household. The quality of the examined content has raised the simple question, What about the dynamics of the diffusion of ideas like these? Employing what I call the "gung-ho" approach � the researcher�s imagination as a historical technique method that does not integrate the facts of the past but places them in a sort of laboratory-simulative environment model � the idea of Sophic Economy has been inserted in NetLogo�s Spreading Utopian Ideas Model. The popularization of an alternative philosophical doctrine and the proposal-experiment of an original method of historical research in Economics have been the main results of the present study.

Keywords: Sergei Bulgakov; Sophic Economy; Spreading Utopian Ideas; Philosophy of Economy; NetLogo; Historical Method in Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 B19 B31 B59 D64 N01 Z12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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