Conference
The turn in recent economics and return of orthodoxy

John B. Davis. University of Amsterdam and university of Marquette, USA

October 24th, 2008, School of Economics, University of Coimbra

Presentation

The conference draws upon the changes in the limits of research in Economics. Questioning the possibility of verifying a substitution of the present competition situation between new research programmes (classic game theory, evolutionary game theory, behavioural game theory, evolutionary economics, behavioural economics, experimental economics, neuroeconomics, agent based complexity economics) by another characterized by the predominance of a new sole approach.

Realizing that orthodoxy normally emerges from heterodoxy and interpreting the division between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, in terms of a nucleus-periphery distinction, was is sought, in sum, is to discern if a new orthodoxy may emerge from heterodoxies, both new as well as traditional.

Biographic Note

John B. Davis is Professor at the school of Economics and Econometry at the University of Amsterdam and at the Department of Economics, University of Marquette, USA. His main research interests lay in Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, History of Economics and Economics and Ethics. John B. Davis was distinguished in 2004 with the Myrdal Prize of the Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.

Recent Articles:

John B. Davis (2007) "Postmodernism and the individual as a process," Review of Social Economy, vol. 65(2), pages 203-208.;
John B. Davis (2007) "The turn in economics and the turn in economic methodology," Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 14(3), pages 275-290.
John B. Davis (2007) "Akerlof and Kranton on identity in economics: inverting the analysis," Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 31(3), pages 349-362, May.

Books:

Companion to Social Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008. [Co-editor W. Dolfsma]
The Theory of the Individual in Economics. London: Routledge, 2003  [Myrdal prize]