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Comment on “What is Heterodox Economics? Conversations with Historians of Economic Thought”

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The Comment on Wrenn’s article “What is Heterodox Economics?” suggests that the inability of heterodox economists to define their field arises from an as yet unrecognized and different metaphysical foundation than that of orthodox economics.

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Notes

  1. Excluding the catch-all description of not being orthodox or neoclassical.

  2. Bhaskar (1997) develops the idea of Generalized Conceptual Schemes (GCS) which arise from metaphysical positions. Within a GCS there can arise competing paradigms, but there may also arise competing GCS’s.

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  1. Keith Busse School of Business & Entrepreneurial Leadership, University of St Francis, 2701, Spring Street, Fort Wayne, IN, 46808, USA

    D. Marshall Meador

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Meador, D.M. Comment on “What is Heterodox Economics? Conversations with Historians of Economic Thought”. For Soc Econ 38, 71–73 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12143-008-9019-4

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