Today’s economics: one, no one and one hundred thousand

Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini and John Davis

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2024, vol. 31, issue 1, 59-76

Abstract: The paper employs the sense and structure of a famous novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand (Uno, nessuno e centomila), of 1926, to reflect upon the recent past, current status, and possible future appearance of economics. From an open/closed system perspective, the paper explores economics in relation to other social science disciplines in the epoch of economics imperialism, when it could reclaim a unitary identity for itself, and then the potential identity crisis occurring to economics during a prolonged phase of reverse imperialisms by other social sciences. Finally, the article provides elements to imagine a possible future of pluralism for the discipline based upon recognition of its now multifaceted identity.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2023.2238857

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