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Developing an Intellectual Infrastructure

In: The Public Economy in Crisis

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  • June A. Sekera

    (Tufts University)

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Ideas and concepts matter. Ideas frame theory; theory shapes concepts, and “Concepts,” writes economist Meghnad Desai (2003), “influence how the world is viewed. They shape human expectations and actions.” So does our phrasing of those ideas and concepts: Richard Musgrave observed in the 1960s that “Semantics, as the history of economic thought so well shows, is not a trivial matter” (Desmarais-Tremblay, p. 5). Public administration theory has yet to catch up with what has been happening to governance. Likewise, economic theory. Neither discipline has addressed the conceptual vacuum that leaves practitioners of public administration stranded on a fantasy island of unrealizable marketized bliss. A cogent and catalyzing concept of public economics is now called for.

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  • June A. Sekera, 2016. "Developing an Intellectual Infrastructure," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: The Public Economy in Crisis, chapter 0, pages 93-102, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-3-319-40487-5_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40487-5_7
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    1. Alves, Carolina & Kvangraven, Ingrid Harvold, 2020. "Changing the Narrative: Economics After Covid-19," Review of Agrarian Studies, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, vol. 10(1), July.

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