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Can neoclassical economics become social economics?

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  • John Elliott
  • Hans Jensen

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This essay has both a general and a specific purpose. Its general purpose is to pose the question: Can neoclassical economics be social economics? Its answer to this general question is: Yes, but only if it abandons its methodological soul; that is, by abandoning methodological individualism, positivism, and ahistoricism, and expressly and systematically adopting a methodological perspective which is holistic, normative, and historical. Its specific purpose is to identify and examine the major elements in the economics of one leading figure in the historical development of neoclassical economics who self-consciously attempted to combine, to paraphrase Schumpeter, a neoclassical head with a social economics heart: Alfred Marshall.

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  • John Elliott & Hans Jensen, 1996. "Can neoclassical economics become social economics?," Forum for Social Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(1), pages 15-37, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fosoec:v:26:y:1996:i:1:p:15-37
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02778862
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    1. D. Tab Rasmussen & J. Rehg, 1999. "The evolutionary context of human economics," Forum for Social Economics, Springer;The Association for Social Economics, vol. 29(1), pages 1-15, September.

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