Specialization, fragmentation, and pluralism in economics
Channel: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
Date: 13/03/2020

This presentation investigates whether specialization in research is causing economics to become an increasingly fragmented and diverse discipline with a continually rising number of niche-based research programs and a declining role for dominant cross-science research programs. Then, it discusses what descriptive pluralism implies about normative pluralism, and makes a case for multidisciplinarity over interdisciplinarity as a basis for arguments promoting pluralism.