This book aims to discern and distinguish the essential features of
basic economic theories and compare them with new theories that have
arisen in recent years. The book focuses on seminal economic ideas and
theories developed mainly in the 1930s to 1950s because their
emergence eventually led to new branches of economics. The book
describes an alternative analytical framework spreading through the
interdisciplinary fields of socioeconophysics and sociodynamics. The
focus is on a set of branching or critical points that separate what
has gone before from what has followed. W. Brian Arthur used the term
“redomaining” when he referred to technological innovation. In the
present volume the author aims to re domain economic theories suited
for a new social order. Major technological innovations accompany not
only changes in the economy and the market but changes in their
meaning as well. In particular, the evolution of trading technology
has changed the meaning of the “invisible hand.” At the end of the
last century, the advent of socioeconophysics became a decisive factor
in the emergence of a new economic science. This emergence has
coincided with changes in the implications of the economy and the
market, which consequently require a redomaining of economic science.
In this new enterprise, the joint efforts of many scientists outside
traditional economics have brought brilliant achievements such as
power law distribution and network analysis, among others. However,
the more diverse the backgrounds of economic scientists, the less
integrated the common views among them may be, resulting in a
sometimes perplexing potpourri of economic terminology. This book
helps to mitigate those differences, shedding light on current
alternative economic theories and how they have evolved.
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How Can Scientists Study Evolving Economic Doctrines from the Last Centuries?
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9784431548447
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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