Pluralism and Anti-Pluralism in Economics: The Atomistic Individual and Religious Fundamentalism
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Source Publication
Review of Political Economy
Source ISSN
0953-8259
Original Item ID
doi:10.1080/09538259.2014.950459
Abstract
This short paper examines a possible connection between religion and economics in terms of the parallelism between the atomistic individual doctrine and the individual soul doctrine. The paper explores whether resistance to pluralism in economics as a methodological practice might be illuminated in terms of this connection. On this view, resistance to pluralism in economics is not a matter of economists holding methodological views about economics practice that are contrary to pluralism, but is rather a kind of anti-pluralism reflecting an intransigent defense of the atomistic individual view as a kind of core or ‘untouchable’ deep doctrine. Two arguments are advanced to demonstrate the parallelism between the atomistic individual doctrine and the individual soul doctrine.
Recommended Citation
Davis, John B., "Pluralism and Anti-Pluralism in Economics: The Atomistic Individual and Religious Fundamentalism" (2014). Economics Faculty Research and Publications. 496.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/econ_fac/496
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Review of Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 4 (2014): 495-502, available online: DOI. © 2014 Taylor & Francis (Routledge). Used with permission.