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Electronic copies of Economics conference papers and proceedings.2024-03-28T20:20:05ZPluralist economics: is it scientific?
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28337
Title: Pluralist economics: is it scientific?
Author(s): Dow, Sheila
Editor(s): Decker, S; Elsner, W; Flechtner, S
Abstract: The aim of this chapter is to set the scene for a discussion of teaching from a pluralist perspective by considering how we produce, and convey, reliable knowledge in economics. Using Kuhn’s framework as a basis for considering different understandings of what constitutes reliable knowledge (propagated through teaching), we focus on the different understandings within mainstream economics and within non-mainstream paradigms. Keynes’s epistemology (as developed in A Treatise on Probability) is then explored as a basis for a pluralist approach to economic knowledge. The mainstream critique of alternative approaches to knowledge, interpreted as ‘anything goes’, is addressed and the argument developed that a pluralist approach generates more reliable knowledge than the monist mainstream approach. This analysis leads to a set of positive and negative heuristics as a guide for pluralist economists as researchers. Some implications are then drawn for pluralist teaching of economics. It is argued that such teaching should include teaching by debates, drawing on history of thought and methodology.2018-08-23T00:00:00ZKeynes on Domestic and International Monetary Reform
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Title: Keynes on Domestic and International Monetary Reform
Author(s): Dow, Sheila
Editor(s): Dow, S; Jespersen, J; Tily, G
Abstract: First paragraph: Within a capitalist economy, the institution of money both enables and constrains. It enables by providing a safe asset as the basis for contracts and as a refuge from uncertainty. But by the same token it constrains by providing an alternative to effective demand, creating unemployment, and by forming the basis for a financial system which can promote inequality of income and wealth. It was to address these concerns that Keynes put forward ideas for monetary reform, to create structures which would discourage the propensity to hoard money, 'a first approximation to the concept of liquidity preference' (Keynes [1936] 1973, p. 174) and to reduce the impact of such a propensity.2018-12-31T00:00:00ZGreen supply chain practices as a consequence of the green bullwhip effect: understanding the relationship
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24088
Title: Green supply chain practices as a consequence of the green bullwhip effect: understanding the relationship
Author(s): Seles, Bruno Michel Roman Pais; Jabbour, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa; Dangelico, Rosa Maria; Jabbour, Charbel Jose Chiappetta
Abstract: This article aimed to understand and analyze how different institutional pressures created by different stakeholders tend to promote the green bullwhip effect and consequent adoption of green supply chain management practices across a supply chain. Based on case study methodology, the relationship between a focal company in the automotive battery supply chain in Brazil and its primary stakeholders was analysed.2016-07-01T00:00:00ZUnion Relative Wage Effects in the United States and the United Kingdom
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/10318
Title: Union Relative Wage Effects in the United States and the United Kingdom
Author(s): Blanchflower, David; Bryson, Alex
Editor(s): Eaton, AE
Abstract: This paper presents evidence of both countercyclical and secular decline in the union membership wage premium in the United States and the United Kingdom over the last couple of decades. The premium has fallen for most groups of workers, the main exception being public sector workers in the United States. By the beginning of the 21st century, the premium remained substantial in the United States, but there was no premium for many workers in the United Kingdom. Industry, state, and occupation-level analyses for the United States identify upward as well as downward movement in the premium characterized by regression to the mean.2007-01-01T00:00:00Z