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On current state of economics: Subjective semi-sociological observations
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2018-5-110-128
Abstract
The paper analyses recent sociological and epistemological trends in the evolution of economics as a scientific enterprise and as a social institution and tries to evaluate its current state and further perspectives. It concludes that now there is neither triumph nor crisis in modern economic science. Rather, economics is in an ordinary working state though not very promising since the period of big theoretical ideas seems to be over for it, since new atheoretical tendency in it is becoming stronger, and since it would become more and more interventionistic in the nearest future.
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R. I. Kapeliushnikov
Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS; Centre for Labour Market Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Kapeliushnikov R.I. On current state of economics: Subjective semi-sociological observations. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2018;(5):110-128. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2018-5-110-128
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