That economics is a value-laden science is not a new idea. Most of the prominent economic thinkers were also philosophers, wary of moral and philosophical content of scientific assumptions, models, and theories. That economics needs philosophy, and the separation between these two cannot be maintained any longer, is gaining recognition, and has become a subject… Read More Scientist qua scientist, scientist qua citizen: Part I
{bit.ly/AZSpirit} Friday, 26th Jan 2017: Lecture by Dr. Asad Zaman, VC PIDE to students at University of Cambridge, Center of Development Studies for Religion & Development paper. 40 minute video recording of lecture on you-tube. For related posts, see: An Islamic Approach to Humanities. Part 1: “What Is Spirituality?”: Modern Secular thought takes spirituality and religion to… Read More Spirituality & Development
Max Weber wrote that “The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization, and, above all, by the ‘disenchantment of the world.’ Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life …” The disenchantment of world leads to the modern view of the heart as merely a pump for circulation… Read More Re-Enchanting the World
In accordance with the pedagogical mission of this blog, and also in accordance with the desire to create a canonical heterodox text, which could serve as a focus point for a united opposition to orthodoxy, I am planning create a series of lessons, targeted at students with some minimal knowledge of conventional macro and micro.… Read More Lessons in Macroeconomics 1
Published as: Zaman, A (2016) “Positivist Misconceptions: An Obstacle to Understanding Pluralism” International Journal of Pluralism in Economics Education, Vol 7, No. 1, pp 93-96.(IJPEE Version) SSRN Version http://ssrn.com/abstract=3370707 – More articles on Logical Positivism and its disastrous impact on economics & human knowledge. At the heart of the problems we face in the world today… Read More Positivism Versus Pluralism
My recent post on RWER Blog asks if there is a “CORE of heterodox economics” which we can all believe in? From the responses to my previous post on whether or not there was a core set of heterodox beliefs, it became clear to me that I have started in the wrong place. Before starting the… Read More Fundamental Flaws of Conventional Economics
Traditional epistemological theories have fostered an endless debate on dichotomies characterized by forms of objectivism, on the one hand, and forms of relativism/skepticism on the other. Currently, among the deep global social and cultural challenges, the crisis in epistemology is characterized by a radical questioning of the whole matrix within which such dichotomies have… Read More Could classical pragmatism help to rethink economic methodology?
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