CONSOLATIONS FOR THE ECONOMIST: THE FUTURE OF ECONOMIC ORTHODOXY1
探讨经济学家对主流经济学的普遍质疑，指出正统经济学被空洞形式主义主导，主张放弃僵化方法、采纳多元主义并借鉴相关学科，为经济学指明可行未来。
Abstract This paper sets the contributions to this volume in the context of widespread and serious doubts expressed by economists about the mainstream of their subject. Orthodox economics is increasingly dominated by sterile formalism, which refers only to itself. But the methodology of orthodox economics is under attack, and many economists are proposing an alternative agenda for the subject. This paper argues that there is a valid future for economics, but to reach it economists will have to abandon sterile formalism, stop invoking notions of ‘rigour’ which they do not understand, adopt pluralism and learn from cognate disciplines instead of trying to colonise them.