The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics

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In this book – the first of three volumes – Franco Archibugi sets out to create an epistemologyof economics, arguing for a radical overturning of the conventional analysis from a“positive” approach to a “programming” approach. This overturning leads to a reappraisalof the foundations of Economics itself, and to an improved integration of Economics as anautonomous discipline alongside Sociology, Political Science, Operational Research, SocialEngineering and Physical or Spatial Planning.The author interrogates how scientific the social sciences really are before proposing a newscientific paradigm for the social sciences, a political preference function and a generalprogramming approach. The chapters revisit hitherto neglected economists like GunnarMyrdal, Ragnar Frisch, Vassili Leontief, and Leif Johansen, using their theory to overturn theepistemological approach of the entire science of economics.Volume II explores oppositions to the traditional and conventional teaching of economics, whilst Volume III presents a concrete and practical example of how to build a PlanningAccounting Framework (PAF), as associated with Frisch’s ‘plan-frame’ (explored in Volume II), to demonstrate the extent to which decisions and negotiations can be routed in the socialsciences.