The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics Volume III: The

This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis and providing an alternative to political economy and social sciences, based not on positivism, but on a normative and programming paradigm. V

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THE PROGRAMMING APPROACH AND THE DEMISE OF ECONOMICS Volume III: The Planning Accounting Framework (PAF)

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics

Franco Archibugi

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics Volume III The Planning Accounting Framework (PAF)

Franco Archibugi Rome, Italy

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Dedicated to the construction of the Frischian Framework

Preface to the Volume III of the Trilogy on the ‘Programming Approach’

As already amply explained in the ‘General Introduction to the Trilogy’ in Vol. I, I have decided to dedicate this third volume to the construction and future development of what Frisch named the ‘Programming Framework’, that he illustrated as the basic instrument for every government or any political community who would want to gain direct control of the decisions around economic policy, in the name of the community represented. I have spoken about this framework in the first two volumes of the Trilogy, describing its motivations, modalities and modus operandi, and projecting in the future of economic research some new cognition of phenomenological interconnections still unknown (a kind of road map of research). I wanted to reflect the state of the art concerning the construction of this framework, and to collect in a dedicated volume everything pertaining to the specific task of producing the framework and—step by step— to attempt to build in a simulated situation, an expe