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Pluralism and Progress in Economics: Research Routines and Modern Economic Growth Models book cover

1st Edition

Pluralism and Progress in Economics Research Routines and Modern Economic Growth Models

By Paweł Kawalec Copyright 2027
204 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Pluralism and Progress in Economics analyzes the dynamics of growth research by introducing the concept of research routines – meso-level patterns of communal practice functionally coordinated by symbolic representations. This book tracks the development of neoclassical growth theory through four distinct stages: exploration, extension, elaboration, and exploitation. It argues that scientific... Read more

List of Figures

Preface

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

 

1. Introduction

 

2. Dynamics of scientific knowledge

2.1 Epistemology of research routines

2.2 Dynamics of research routines

2.3 Research networks

2.4 Research routines as an account of scientific change

 

3. Development of the neoclassical growth routine

3.1 Exploration

3.2 Symbolic representation and standardization

3.3 Extending and elaborating

3.4 Exploiting and nexus formation

 

4. Plurality of growth models

4.1 Existence and stability of equilibrium

4.2 Production function

4.3 Sources of plurality

4.4 Threads, routines and sub-routines

 

5. Criteria of progress in economics           

5.1. Dynamics and progress

5.2. General accounts of scientific progress

5.3. Progress and game-playing in economics

5.4. Intensive progress

 

6. Challenges of pluralistic progress in growth research

6.1 Plurality and pluralism

6.2 Beyond monism

6.3 Metajustification of model plurality

6.4 Piecemeal realism

 

7. Conclusion

 

Index

 

 

Biography

Paweł Kawalec is Full Professor at the Department of Epistemology, Faculty of Philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), Poland.

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