The Programming Approach And The Demise Of Economics: Volume II: Selected Testimonies On The Epistemological ’Overturning’ Of Economic Theory And Policy

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This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis and providing an alternative to political economy and social sciences, based not on positivism, but on a normative and programming paradigm. Volume II builds on the work presented in Volume I to explore oppositions to the traditional and conventional teaching of economics, and presents testimonies that are favourable to a trend towards a programming approach, thereby giving substance to the epistemological 'overturning' of conventional analysis. Such oppositions studied include the work of Ludvig von Mises and his theory of praxeology; Ian Tinbergen and Wassily Leontif's preference for 'planning' over 'forecasting science'; Bruno de Finetti and Daniel Bell's support for the base of 'utopia' in economics; the trend from the 'theory of planning' towards the 'methodology of planning, by Andreas Faludi; neoclassic curiosity about the 'multi-purposes approach' and 'non-economic commodities' as investigated by Walter Isard, as well as theories expressed by Herbert Simon, Robert Lucas, George Soros and Mark Blaug. Volume III takes studies further and presents a concrete and practical example of how to build a Planning Accounting Framework (PAF), as associated with Frisch's 'plan-frame' (explored in Volume II), to demonstrate the extent to which decisions and negotiations can be routed in the social sciences. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix The Programming Approach: As Epistemologically Based, Futuristic Decision and ‘Rational Utopia’ (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 1-34 The Programming Approach and the Old, Unresolved Debate on ‘Decision Theory’ (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 35-68 The Programming Approach in the Collective Decision and ‘Action-Centred’ Analysis (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 69-129 The Programming Approach and the Mainstream Economic General Theory (from the Isard’s ‘General Theory’) (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 131-149 The Programming Approach and the Management Sciences (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 151-178 The Programming Approach, the Crisis of Traditional Economics and the Unavoidable ‘Post-Capitalism’, Leading to a ‘Global Sovereignty’ (A Peculiar Analysis of George Soros) (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 179-228 A Project for a New Worldwide, Strategic Methodology for Planning (Under the Sponsorship of a Renovated University of the United Nations) (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 229-270 The Economics as Tool for Measuring and Improving the Communities Performance Towards a New Social Accountability (in Public and Private; Economic and Social; National and Global) (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 271-296 Improving Human Activities and Values as a Strategy to Save Economic Performances and Improvements (Franco Archibugi)....Pages 297-336 Back Matter ....Pages 337-458