Pluralist Movery - BlogAsk three economists and you will get four opinions. Or so the famous joke goes. Economics is a social science with numerous faces, and many have been left unseen. On our blog, we try to show all in an undiscriminating manner.
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In the last decades, especially in the midst of the recent economic, political and social crisis, it became clear that conventional tools of economic analysis on their own are not sufficient to understand the dynamic processes of social phenomena. As a consequence, methodological and theoretical pluralism in economics received more attention, yet the balance of power remains in favour of the neoclassical orthodoxy. The most important scientific journals, most acknowledged universities, and the tools of policy endure in the grip of the mainstream, leaving the ‘acceptable’ economics largely incapable of understanding, explaining, and predicting the phenomena.
As a response to the status-quo economics found itself locked-in, a large community of academics and public intellectuals moved to discuss economics on the blog sphere, independently of discriminating theoretical and methodological pressure. Even the Nobel laurates and other key economists joined the hype, with Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, late Gary Becker, Gregory N. Mankiw, Tyler Cowen, Steven Levitt, Bradley DeLong among the most visible. We won’t even try to list all the non-Nobel prize winners who contribute to an exciting and relevant discussion about economic issues accessible to non-economist reader.
In Slovenian Blog sphere, these discussions are lacking (with a welcome exception of prof. dr. Jože P. Damijan and his widely read blog). For that reason, the coordinators at the Movement for economic pluralism decided to start a new blog.
As a response to the status-quo economics found itself locked-in, a large community of academics and public intellectuals moved to discuss economics on the blog sphere, independently of discriminating theoretical and methodological pressure. Even the Nobel laurates and other key economists joined the hype, with Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, late Gary Becker, Gregory N. Mankiw, Tyler Cowen, Steven Levitt, Bradley DeLong among the most visible. We won’t even try to list all the non-Nobel prize winners who contribute to an exciting and relevant discussion about economic issues accessible to non-economist reader.
In Slovenian Blog sphere, these discussions are lacking (with a welcome exception of prof. dr. Jože P. Damijan and his widely read blog). For that reason, the coordinators at the Movement for economic pluralism decided to start a new blog.
Publish your writing!MEP invites all professionals and non-professionals alike, with scholarly interests in the economic theory, economic history, ethics, socio-economics, economic methodology, and other related issues, to contact us with your contributions in order to discuss the potential collaboration. It is our purpose and aim to allow opinions from all the sides of the economic spectrum, and not to discriminate the content on the basis of ideological inclinations or political affiliations of the editors, but only on the grounds of the quality of work. We hope to enable balanced exchange of different opinions, and to open the discussion independent of the hegemony of the neoclassical economics, yet at the same time not to exclude the latter from the discussion, as it bears a relevant contribution to economics as a science. At the same time, we are not to limit the interdisciplinary contributions and contributors with a focus on history, sociology, philosophy, psychology and the like. Contributions may be either in English or Slovenian.
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