My PhD dissertation "Philosophical Inquiries into Pluralism in Economics" is out!. It consists of intro essay 📖 and four peer-reviewed papers.📄1 📄2 📄3 📄4

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Some comments on my recent interview with Ha-Joon Chang in this blog post. I think the counterarguments to pluralism in economics merit more attention than Chang gives them: #economics #philosophy.

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If this aroused your interest, read how Chang responds to the counterarguments I throw at him.

. “(In Brazil) they have a system where you get the same credit for publishing in Cambridge Journal of Economics if you are a non-neoclassical economist, as what you get for publishing in AER or JPE if you are a neoclassical economist.". - H-J Chang

"The solution is that you change the method of evaluating the quality of research in a way that gives equally high rating to top scholars from each school" . - H-J Chang

“True pluralism means that we recognise that there are different kinds of respectable ways of doing research in economics”. - H-J Chang

“It's not like just ‘live and let live’ or just allowing minorities to exist. Nor is this the ‘I disagree with you, but I respect your right to be different’ approach”. - H-J Chang

“I want the pluralism which recognizes all the potentially useful approaches to economics as legitimate and recognizes their relative strengths and weaknesses.”. - H-J Chang

“I think that the ultimate power is the power to make other people think what you want them to think. (…) This kind of power is not discussed at all in neoclassical economics.”. - H-J Chang

“Power in neoclassical economics is essentially defined in terms of the relationship in a bargaining situation. It's very bad at talking about structural power—discrimination embedded in the social structure, for example.”. - H-J Chang

“It's not just the choice about the problem, but also the way you theorize about the world. Why are we insisting that individuals should be the ultimate unit of analysis? Why are we not using categories like class?”. - H-J Chang

”I think the belief that you can define a subject in terms of methodology is very problematic because the methodology itself is not value-free.”. - H-J Chang

“I define economics as the study of the economy. (. ) I know that many mainstream economists try to define it in terms of methods, essentially defining it as the study of rational choice.”. - H-J Chang

This interview I did with Ha-Joon Chang on #economics, #pluralism and #democracy is a long one – hence a thread of provocative quotes to whet your appetite. 🧵⬇️.