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THE PROGRAMMING APPROACH AND THE DEMISE OF ECONOMICS Volume II: Selected Testimonies on the Epistemological ‘Overturning’ of Economic Theory and Policy

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics

Franco Archibugi

The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics Volume II Selected Testimonies on the Epistemological ‘Overturning’ of Economic Theory and Policy

Franco Archibugi Rome, Italy

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Preface to the Second Volume of the Trilogy on the Programming Approach

This is the second volume of a Trilogy of books concerning the Programming approach, a totally different and alternative approach, with respect to the traditional approach that is practised, with a continuous sense of failure and guilt—in Economics—by most authors, who have the ‘invisible hand’ as the basis of their discipline and who have also constituted the history of the discipline.1 So, in this volume, I considered it useful and interesting to offer readers a selection and synthesis of some authors, economists, and others from other social sciences, (some well known, others less so), who—even not achieving the same systematic clarity, advances and explicit vision of the authors examined and relocated on the scene in Vol. I—deserve to be considered. This is a preparatory support, in some way, to that critical conscience (without particular radical theoretical effects, but full of innovative effects) of contemporary Economics thinking, whi