Pluralism and Anti-pluralism in Economics: The Atomistic Individual and Religious Fundamentalism

John Davis

Review of Political Economy, 2014, vol. 26, issue 4, 495-502

Abstract: This short paper examines a possible connection between religion and economics in terms of the parallelism between the atomistic individual doctrine and the individual soul doctrine. The paper explores whether resistance to pluralism in economics as a methodological practice might be illuminated in terms of this connection. On this view, resistance to pluralism in economics is not a matter of economists holding methodological views about economics practice that are contrary to pluralism, but is rather a kind of anti-pluralism reflecting an intransigent defense of the atomistic individual view as a kind of core or 'untouchable' deep doctrine. Two arguments are advanced to demonstrate the parallelism between the atomistic individual doctrine and the individual soul doctrine.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2014.950459

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