Over more than two centuries the development of economic theory has
created a wide array of different theories, concepts and results.
Nevertheless, there is no general theory, which mrifies these varied
theories into a comprehensive one. Economics has been split between
partial and conflicting representations of the functioning of market
economies. We have a collection of separate theories such as the
Marxian economics, the Keynesian economics, the general equilibrium
theory, and the neoclassical growth theory. These diverse economic
theories have co-existed but not in a structured relationship with
each other. Economic students are trained to understand economic
phenomena by severally incompatible theories one by one in the same
course. Since the end of Second Wodd War many crises in economic
theory have been announced. The economist experienced the crisis of
the general equilibrium economics, the crisis of the neoclassical
growth economics, the crisis of the Keynesian economics, not to
mention the crises of the Marxian economics. It is quite reasonable to
expect the loss of confidence in theoretical economics even among
professional economists after so many crises in a very short period of
time. But a crisis offers new opportmrities for change, either for
better or for worse. The past crises in theoretical economics may be
perceived as a historical opportmrity to construct a general economic
theory by which the traditional theories are integrated into a higher
whole.
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Models of Capital, Knowledge and Economic Structures
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ISBN
9783642181481
Publisert
2020
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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