
Heterodox economics is a broad, relative term referring to schools of economic thought which are not commonly perceived as belonging to
mainstream economics
Mainstream economics is the body of knowledge, theories, and models of economics, as taught by universities worldwide, that are generally accepted by economists as a basis for discussion. Also known as orthodox economics, it can be contrasted to ...
. There is no absolute definition of what constitutes heterodox economic thought, as it is defined in contrast to the most prominent, influential or popular schools of thought in a given time and place.
[Dequench, David (2007) "Neoclassical, mainstream, orthodox, and heterodox economics", ''Journal of Post Keynesian Economics'', 30 (2), 279-30]
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Groups typically classed as heterodox in current discourse include the Austrian school of economics, Austrian, ecological
Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely re ...
, Marxist
Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflic ...
-historical
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...
, post-Keynesian, and modern monetary approaches.[Frederic S. Lee, 2008. "heterodox economics," '' The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics'', 2nd Edition, v. 4, pp. 2–65]
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Four frames of analysis have been highlighted for their importance to heterodox thought: history, natural systems, uncertainty, and power.
History
In the mid-19th century, such thinkers as Auguste Comte
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (; ; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the ...
, Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 17955 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher. Known as the "Sage writing, sage of Chelsea, London, Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the V ...
, John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English polymath a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, Critique of politic ...
and Karl Marx
Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...
made early critiques of orthodox economy. A number of heterodox schools of economic thought challenged the dominance of neoclassical economics
Neoclassical economics is an approach to economics in which the production, consumption, and valuation (pricing) of goods and services are observed as driven by the supply and demand model. According to this line of thought, the value of a go ...
after the neoclassical revolution of the 1870s. In addition to socialist critics of capitalism, heterodox schools in this period included advocates of various forms of mercantilism
Mercantilism is a economic nationalism, nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports of an economy. It seeks to maximize the accumulation of resources within the country and use those resources ...
, such as the American School dissenters from neoclassical methodology
In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods. However, the term can also refer to the methods themselves or to the philosophical discussion of associated background assumptions. A method is a structured procedure for bri ...
such as the historical school, and advocates of unorthodox monetary theories such as social credit.
Physical scientists and biologists were the first individuals to use energy flows to explain social and economic development. Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797– May 13, 1878) was an American physicist and inventor who served as the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the secretary for the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor ...
, an American physicist and first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, Education center, education and Research institute, research centers, created by the Federal government of the United States, U.S. government "for the increase a ...
, remarked that the "fundamental principle of political economy is that the physical labor of man can only be ameliorated by… the transformation of matter from a crude state to an artificial condition...by expending what is called power or energy."
The rise, and absorption into the mainstream of Keynesian economics
Keynesian economics ( ; sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomics, macroeconomic theories and Economic model, models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongl ...
, which appeared to provide a more coherent policy response to unemployment
Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is the proportion of people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work du ...
than unorthodox monetary or trade policies, contributed to the decline of interest in these schools.
After 1945, the neoclassical synthesis
The neoclassical synthesis (NCS), or neoclassical–Keynesian synthesis Mankiw, N. Gregory. "The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer". '' The Journal of Economic Perspectives''. Vol. 20, No. 4 (Fall, 2006), p. 35. is an academic movement a ...
of Keynesian and neoclassical economics resulted in a clearly defined mainstream position based on a division of the field into microeconomics (generally neoclassical but with a newly developed theory of market failure
In neoclassical economics, market failure is a situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not Pareto efficient, often leading to a net loss of economic value.Paul Krugman and Robin Wells Krugman, Robin Wells (2006 ...
) and macroeconomics (divided between Keynesian and monetarist views on such issues as the role of monetary policy). Austrians and post-Keynesians who dissented from this synthesis emerged as clearly defined heterodox schools. In addition, the Marxist and institutionalist schools remained active but with limited acceptance or credibility.
Up to 1980 the most notable themes of heterodox economics in its various forms included:
# rejection of the atomistic individual conception in favor of a socially embedded individual conception;
# emphasis on time as an irreversible historical process;
# reasoning in terms of mutual influences between individuals and social structures.
From approximately 1980 mainstream economics
Mainstream economics is the body of knowledge, theories, and models of economics, as taught by universities worldwide, that are generally accepted by economists as a basis for discussion. Also known as orthodox economics, it can be contrasted to ...
has been significantly influenced by a number of new research programs, including behavioral economics
Behavioral economics is the study of the psychological (e.g. cognitive, behavioral, affective, social) factors involved in the decisions of individuals or institutions, and how these decisions deviate from those implied by traditional economi ...
, complexity economics
Complexity economics is the application of complex system, complexity science to the problems of economics. It relaxes several common assumptions in economics, including general equilibrium theory. While it does not reject the existence of an equ ...
, evolutionary economics, experimental economics, and neuroeconomics
Neuroeconomics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field that seeks to explain human decision-making, the ability to process multiple alternatives and to follow through on a plan of action. It studies how economic behavior can shape our u ...
. One key development has been an epistemic turn away from theory towards an empirically driven approach focused centrally on questions of causal inference
Causal inference is the process of determining the independent, actual effect of a particular phenomenon that is a component of a larger system. The main difference between causal inference and inference of association is that causal inference an ...
. As a consequence, some heterodox economists, such as John B. Davis, proposed that the definition of heterodox economics has to be adapted to this new, more complex reality:
::...heterodox economics post-1980 is a complex structure, being composed out of two broadly different kinds of heterodox work, each internally differentiated with a number of research programs having different historical origins and orientations: the traditional left heterodoxy familiar to most and the 'new heterodoxy' resulting from other science imports.[
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Rejection of neoclassical economics
Heterodox economics is not a school of thought in its own right, but rather an umbrella term for a set of various, diverse schools of economic thought. Despite their diversity, heterodox schools often consider neoclassical economics
Neoclassical economics is an approach to economics in which the production, consumption, and valuation (pricing) of goods and services are observed as driven by the supply and demand model. According to this line of thought, the value of a go ...
to be a flawed or invalid approach to understanding economics. The reasons behind this rejection may vary. Some of the elements commonly found in heterodox critiques are listed below.
Criticism of the neoclassical model of individual behavior
One of the most broadly accepted principles of neoclassical economics is the assumption of the "rationality of economic agents". Indeed, for a number of economists, the notion of rational maximizing behavior is taken to be synonymous with economic behavior (Hirshleifer 1984). When some economists' studies do not embrace the rationality assumption, they are seen as placing the analyses outside the boundaries of the neoclassical economics discipline (Landsberg 1989, 596). Neoclassical economics begins with the ''a priori
('from the earlier') and ('from the later') are Latin phrases used in philosophy to distinguish types of knowledge, Justification (epistemology), justification, or argument by their reliance on experience. knowledge is independent from any ...
'' assumptions that agents are rational
Rationality is the quality of being guided by or based on reason. In this regard, a person acts rationally if they have a good reason for what they do, or a belief is rational if it is based on strong evidence. This quality can apply to an ...
and that they seek to maximize their individual
An individual is one that exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of living as an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) as a person unique from other people and possessing one's own needs or g ...
utility
In economics, utility is a measure of a certain person's satisfaction from a certain state of the world. Over time, the term has been used with at least two meanings.
* In a normative context, utility refers to a goal or objective that we wish ...
(or profits) subject to environmental constraints. These assumptions provide the backbone for rational choice theory
Rational choice modeling refers to the use of decision theory (the theory of rational choice) as a set of guidelines to help understand economic and social behavior. The theory tries to approximate, predict, or mathematically model human behav ...
.
Many heterodox schools are critical of the homo economicus
The term ''Homo economicus'', or economic man, is the portrayal of humans as agents who are consistently rational and narrowly self-interested, and who pursue their subjectively defined ends optimally. It is a wordplay on ''Homo sapiens'', u ...
model of human behavior used in the standard neoclassical model. A typical version of the critique is that of Satya Gabriel:[Satya J. Gabriel 2003. "Introduction to Heterodox Economic Theory." (blog), June 4]
Satya J. Gabriel is a Professor of Economics
Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
at Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It is the oldest member of the h ...
Neoclassical economic theory is grounded in a particular conception of human psychology, agency or decision-making. It is assumed that all human beings make economic decisions so as to maximize pleasure or utility. Some heterodox theories reject this basic assumption of neoclassical theory, arguing for alternative understandings of how economic decisions are made and/or how human psychology works. It is possible to accept the notion that humans are pleasure seeking machines, yet reject the idea that economic decisions are governed by such pleasure seeking. Human beings may, for example, be unable to make choices consistent with pleasure maximization due to social constraints and/or coercion. Humans may also be unable to correctly assess the choice points that are most likely to lead to maximum pleasure, even if they are unconstrained (except in budgetary terms) in making such choices. And it is also possible that the notion of pleasure seeking is itself a meaningless assumption because it is either impossible to test or too general to refute. Economic theories that reject the basic assumption of economic decisions as the outcome of pleasure maximization are heterodox.
Shiozawa emphasizes that economic agents act in a complex world and it is therefore impossible for them to attain maximal utility point. They instead behave as if there are repertoires of many ready-made rules, one of which they choose according to the relevant situation.
Criticism of the neoclassical model of market equilibrium
In microeconomic theory, cost-minimization by consumers and by firms implies the existence of supply and demand
In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a Market (economics), market. It postulates that, Ceteris_paribus#Applications, holding all else equal, the unit price for a particular Good (economics), good ...
correspondences for which market clearing
In economics, market clearing is the process by which, in an economic market, the supply of whatever is traded is equated to the demand so that there is no excess supply or demand, ensuring that there is neither a surplus nor a shortage. The new ...
equilibrium prices exist, if there are large numbers of consumers and producers. Under convexity assumptions or under some marginal-cost pricing rules, each equilibrium will be Pareto efficient: In large economies, non-convexity also leads to quasi-equilibria that are nearly efficient.
However, the concept of market equilibrium has been criticized by Austrians, post-Keynesians and others, who object to applications of microeconomic theory to real-world markets, when such markets are not usefully approximated by microeconomic models. Heterodox economists assert that micro-economic models rarely capture reality.
Mainstream microeconomics may be defined in terms of optimization and equilibrium, following the approaches of Paul Samuelson
Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he "h ...
and Hal Varian. On the other hand, heterodox economics may be labeled as falling into the nexus of institutions, history, and social structure.
Most recent developments
Over the past two decades, the intellectual agendas of heterodox economists have taken a decidedly pluralist turn. Leading heterodox thinkers have moved beyond the established paradigms of Austrian, Feminist
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
, Institutional-Evolutionary, Marxian, Post Keynesian, Radical, Social, and Sraffian economics—opening up new lines of analysis, criticism, and dialogue among dissenting schools of thought. This cross-fertilization of ideas is creating a new generation of scholarship in which novel combinations of heterodox ideas are being brought to bear on important contemporary and historical problems, such as socially grounded reconstructions of the individual in economic theory; the goals and tools of economic measurement and professional ethics; the complexities of policymaking in today's global political economy; and innovative connections among formerly separate theoretical traditions (Marxian, Austrian, feminist, ecological, Sraffian, institutionalist, and post-Keynesian) (for a review of post-Keynesian economics, see Lavoie (1992); Rochon (1999)).
David Colander, an advocate of complexity economics
Complexity economics is the application of complex system, complexity science to the problems of economics. It relaxes several common assumptions in economics, including general equilibrium theory. While it does not reject the existence of an equ ...
, argues that the ideas of heterodox economists are now being discussed in the mainstream without mention of the heterodox economists, because the tools to analyze institutions, uncertainty, and other factors have now been developed by the mainstream. He suggests that heterodox economists should embrace rigorous mathematics and attempt to work from within the mainstream, rather than treating it as an enemy.
Some schools of heterodox economic thought have also taken a transdisciplinary approach. Thermoeconomics
Thermoeconomics, also referred to as biophysical economics, is a school of heterodox economics that applies the laws of thermodynamics, laws of statistical mechanics to economic theory. Thermoeconomics can be thought of as the statistical physic ...
is based on the claim that human economic processes are governed by the second law of thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics is a physical law based on Universal (metaphysics), universal empirical observation concerning heat and Energy transformation, energy interconversions. A simple statement of the law is that heat always flows spont ...
. The posited relationship between economic theory, energy
Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of Work (thermodynamics), work and in the form of heat and l ...
and entropy
Entropy is a scientific concept, most commonly associated with states of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used in diverse fields, from classical thermodynamics, where it was first recognized, to the micros ...
, has been extended further by systems scientists to explain the role of energy in biological evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certai ...
in terms of such economic criteria as productivity
Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure. Measurements of productivity are often expressed as a ratio of an aggregate output to a single input or an aggregate input used in a production proce ...
, efficiency
Efficiency is the often measurable ability to avoid making mistakes or wasting materials, energy, efforts, money, and time while performing a task. In a more general sense, it is the ability to do things well, successfully, and without waste.
...
, and especially the costs and benefits of the various mechanisms for capturing and utilizing available energy to build biomass and do work.
Various student movements have emerged in response to the exclusion of heterodox economics in the curricula of most economics degrees. The International Student Initiative for Pluralist Economics was set up as an umbrella network for various smaller university groups such as Rethinking Economics to promote pluralism in economics, including more heterodox approaches.
Fields of heterodox economic thought
* Austrian economics
The Austrian school is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result primarily from the motivations and actions of individuals along with thei ...
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* Binary economics
* Bioeconomics
* Buddhist economics
Buddhist economics is a spiritual and philosophical approach to the study of economics. It examines the psychology of the human mind and the emotions that direct economic activity, in particular concepts such as anxiety, aspirations and self ...
* Complexity economics
Complexity economics is the application of complex system, complexity science to the problems of economics. It relaxes several common assumptions in economics, including general equilibrium theory. While it does not reject the existence of an equ ...
* Co-operative economics
Cooperative (or co-operative) economics is a field of economics that incorporates co-operative studies, cooperative studies and political economy toward the study and management of cooperatives.
History
Cooperative economics developed as both a ...
* Distributism
Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated. Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, distributism was based upon Catholic social teaching princi ...
* Ecological economics §
* Evolutionary economics # § (partly within mainstream economics)
* Econophysics
* Feminist economics
Feminist economics is the critical study of economics and economies, with a focus on gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis. Feminist economic researchers include academics, activists, policy theorists, and practitio ...
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* Georgism
Georgism, in modern times also called Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—includ ...
* General Economy
* Gift Economy
A gift economy or gift culture is a system of exchange where valuables are not sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards. Social norms and customs govern giving a gift in a gift culture; although there ...
* Green Economics
* Humanistic economics
* Innovation Economics
Innovation economics is a growing field of economic theory and applied/ experimental economics that emphasizes innovation and entrepreneurship. It comprises both the application of any type of innovations, especially technological but not only, ...
* Institutional economics
Institutional economics focuses on understanding the role of the Sociocultural evolution, evolutionary process and the role of institutions in shaping Economy, economic Human behavior, behavior. Its original focus lay in Thorstein Veblen's instin ...
# §
* Islamic economics
* Marxian economics
Marxian economics, or the Marxian school of economics, is a heterodox school of political economic thought. Its foundations can be traced back to Karl Marx's critique of political economy. However, unlike critics of political economy, Marxian ...
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* Mutualism
* Neuroeconomics
Neuroeconomics is an Interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field that seeks to explain human decision-making, the ability to process multiple alternatives and to follow through on a plan of action. It studies how economic behavior can shape our u ...
* Participatory economics
Participatory economics, often abbreviated parecon, is an economic system based on participatory decision making as the primary economic mechanism for allocation in society. In the system, the say in decision-making is proportional to the impa ...
* Political Economy
Political or comparative economy is a branch of political science and economics studying economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and national economies) and their governance by political systems (e.g. law, institutions, and government). Wi ...
* Post-Keynesian economics
Post-Keynesian economics is a Schools of economic thought, school of economic thought with its origins in ''The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The General Theory'' of John Maynard Keynes, with subsequent development influence ...
§ including Modern Monetary Theory and Circuitism
* Post scarcity
* Pluralism in economics
* Resource-based economics – not to be confused with a resource-based economy
* Real-world economics
* Sharing economics
* Socialist economics #
* Social economics
Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyse ...
(partially heterodox usage)
* Surplus Economics Theory
* Sraffian economics #
* Technocracy
Technocracy is a form of government in which decision-makers appoint knowledge experts in specific domains to provide them with advice and guidance in various areas of their policy-making responsibilities. Technocracy follows largely in the tra ...
( Energy Accounting)
* Thermoeconomics
Thermoeconomics, also referred to as biophysical economics, is a school of heterodox economics that applies the laws of thermodynamics, laws of statistical mechanics to economic theory. Thermoeconomics can be thought of as the statistical physic ...
* Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales
# Listed in Journal of Economic Literature
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Some schools in the social sciences aim to promote certain perspectives: classical and modern political economy
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; economic sociology
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The classical period was concerned ...
and anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, society, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. Social anthropology studies patterns of behav ...
; gender and racial issues in economics; and so on.
Notable heterodox economists
* Alfred Eichner
* Alice Amsden
* Aníbal Pinto
* Anwar Shaikh
* Bernard Lonergan
* Bill Mitchell
* Bryan Caplan
Bryan Douglas Caplan (born April 8, 1971) is an American economist and author. He is a professor of economics at George Mason University, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a former c ...
* Carlota Perez
* Carolina Alves
* Celso Furtado
* Dani Rodrik
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* David Harvey
* Duncan Foley
* E. F. Schumacher
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* Edward Nell
* Esther Dweck
* F.A. Hayek
* Frank Stilwell
* Franklin Serrano
* Frederic S. Lee
* Frederick Soddy
* G.L.S. Shackle
* Hans Singer
* Ha-Joon Chang
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* Heinz Kurz
* Henry George
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* Herman Daly
* Hyman Minsky
* Jack Amariglio
* Jeremy Rifkin
* Joan Robinson
Joan Violet Robinson ( Maurice; 31 October 1903 – 5 August 1983) was a British economist known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. One of the most prominent economists of the century, Robinson incarnated the "Cambridge Sc ...
* John Bellamy Foster
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* John Komlos
* Joseph Schumpeter
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* Karl Marx
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* Kate Raworth
* Lance Taylor
* Ludwig Lachmann
* Ludwig von Mises
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* Lyndon Larouche
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* Maria da Conceição Tavares
* Mariana Mazzucato
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* Mason Gaffney
* Michael Albert
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* Michael Hudson
* Michael Perelman
* Michał Kalecki
* Murray Rothbard
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* Mushtaq Khan
* Nelson Barbosa
* Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
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* Nicolaus Tideman
* Paul A. Baran
* Paul Cockshott
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* Paul Sweezy
* Peter Navarro
* Piero Sraffa
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* Rania Antonopoulos
* Raúl Prebisch
* Richard D. Wolff
* Robin Hahnel
* Ruy Mauro Marini
* Simon Zadek
* Stephanie Kelton
* Stephen Resnick
* Theotônio dos Santos
* Thorstein Veblen
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In his best-known book ...
* Tony Lawson
* Yanis Varoufakis
* Yusif Sayigh
See also
* Association for Evolutionary Economics The Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) is an international organization of economists working in the Institutional economics, institutionalist and Evolutionary economics, evolutionary traditions of Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons and We ...
* Chinese economic reform
Reform and opening-up ( zh, s=改革开放, p=Gǎigé kāifàng), also known as the Chinese economic reform or Chinese economic miracle, refers to a variety of economic reforms termed socialism with Chinese characteristics and socialist marke ...
* Degrowth
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* EAEPE
* Foundations of Real-World Economics
* Happiness economics
The economics of happiness or happiness economics is the theoretical, qualitative and quantitative study of happiness and quality of life, including positive and negative Affect (psychology), affects, well-being, life satisfaction and related co ...
* Humanistic economics
* Kinetic exchange models of markets
* Pluralism in economics
* Post-autistic economics
The post-autistic economics movement (), or movement of students for the reform of economics teaching (), is a political movement that criticises neoclassical economics and advocates for pluralism in economics. The movement gained attention afte ...
* Post-growth
Post-growth is a stance on economic growth concerning the limits-to-growth dilemma — recognition that, on a planet of non-renewable resource, finite material resources, extractivism, extractive economy, economies and population growth, populati ...
* Real-world economics review
Real World or The Real World may also refer to:
* Real life, a phrase to distinguish between the real world and fictional, virtual or idealized worlds
* Reality
* World
* Existence Television
* The Real World (TV series), ''The Real World'' (TV s ...
* Real-world economics
* Surplus economics
Notes
References
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Books
* Jo, Tae-Hee, Chester, Lynne, and D'Ippoliti. eds. 2017
''The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics''
London and New York: Routledge. .
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* Gerber, Julien-Francois and Steppacher, Rolf, ed., 2012
Towards an Integrated Paradigm in Heterodox Economics: Alternative Approaches to the Current Eco-Social Crises
Palgrave Macmillan.
* Lee, Frederic S. 2009
A History of Heterodox Economics Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth Century
London and New York: Routledge. 2009
* Harvey, John T. and Garnett Jr., Robert F., ed., 2007
''Future Directions for Heterodox Economics'', Series Advances in Heterodox Economics, The University of Michigan Press.
'' What Every Economics Student Needs to Know.''
Routledge 2014.
* McDermott, John, 2003. ''Economics in Real Time: A Theoretical Reconstruction, Series Advances in Heterodox Economics'', The University of Michigan Press.
* Rochon, Louis-Philippe and Rossi, Sergio, editors, 2003
'' Modern Theories of Money: The Nature and Role of Money in Capitalist Economies''. Edward Elgar Publishing.
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* Stilwell, Frank., 2011. ''Political Economy: The Contest of Economic Ideas''. Oxford University Press.
* Foundations of Real-World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know, 2nd edition, Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge: 2019.
Articles, conferences, papers
* Lavoie, Marc, 2006
''Do Heterodox Theories Have Anything in Common? A Post-Keynesian Point of View.''
* Lawson, Tony, 2006. "The Nature of Heterodox Economics," ''Cambridge Journal of Economics'', 30(4), pp. 483–505
Pre-publication copy.
Journals
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''Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review''
* ''Journal of Institutional Economics''
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''Cambridge Journal of Economics''
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''Real-world economics review''
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''International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education''
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''Review of Radical Political Economy''
External links
Association for Heterodox Economics
Heterodox Economics Newsletter
Heterodox Economics Directory (Graduate and Undergraduate Programs, Journals, Publishers and Book Series, Associations, Blogs, and Institutions and Other Web Sites)
Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE)
Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
Association for Social Economics (ASE)
Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group (PKSG)
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