Pluralism and Complexity

Alessandro Vercelli is a Life Member of the Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge (UK) and was formally full Professor of Political Economy and Environmental Economics at the University of Siena (Italy). He is the recipient of various research prizes and awards including the Schumpeter-Haberler Distinguished fellow award (2018). His most recent book is Crisis and Sustainability: The Delusion of Free Markets (2019).

Part I. The Epistemic Foundations of Pluralism: 1. Rationality and Pluralism: Genesis and Coevolution; 2. Science and epistemology from the scientific revolution to the enlightenment; 3. Science and epistemology since Kant; 4. Pluralism and philosophy of science; Part II. Pluralism in Aggregate Economic Analysis: 5. Epistemic visions in early political economy; 6. The marginalist revolution; 7. Visions and disputes at the turn of 19th century; 8. The general equilibrium approach from Walras to Hicks; Part III. Keynesian Revolution and New Classical Counter-revolution: 9. Keynes on probability and complexity; 10. The Keynesian revolution; 11. Macroeconomics after the great stagflation; Part IV. Pluralism and Complexity in Economics: 12. Complexity and economics; 13. Ignorance awareness and economic decisions; 14. Epistemic matrices and evolutionary trajectories; 15. Economy and economics; 16. Whither Pluralism?.