Contents:
C.1. Three examples
C.2. The mirage of neutrality
C.3. The inevitability of paradigms
C.4. Paradigms and their basic dynamics
C.5. The workings of Traditional Economics
C.6. The twofold reductionism of Traditional
Economics
C.6.1. The
economy as an interactive system
C.6.2. Traditional
Economics and the loss of process
C.6.3. Two
versions of equilibrium
C.7. Beyond Traditional Economics: The
post-neoclassical paradigm
C.7.1. Instrumental
rationality: From parametric to strategic
C.7.2. Non-cooperative
games and the dynamics of interaction
C.7.3. The Nash solution and
the return of the independent-agent approximation
C.7.4. The flaws
of game theory and the advent of bounded rationality
C.7.5. Elements
of complexity economics
C.7.6. Elements
of behavioral and neuroeconomics
C.8. Beyond the post-neoclassical paradigm: Integrating
ecological economics, monetary behaviorism, and critical political economy
C.8.1. Making
the post-neoclassical paradigm ecologically rational
C.8.2. Making
the post-neoclassical paradigm sensitive to the behavioral efficaciousness of money
C.8.3. Opening
the post-neoclassical paradigm to critical and existential rationality
C.9. Toward a new economic paradigm?
This Primer (Appendix C from Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link) gives and extended and detailed introduction to paradigms in economics.
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