Re: Some ideas for new lists

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On Thu, 28 Jul 1994, RICHARD P.F. HOLT wrote:

> Dear PKTers,
> I need some feedback from you. I'm thinking of starting two new electronic
> lists. The first would be Philosophy of Economics and Methodology (POEM)

Sounds very promising to me. IMHO (really humble) many economists tend to
underestimate the importance of questions concerning the philosophical and
methodological foundations of their profession and for that reason seem
to accept too easily simplistic answers to rather difficult questions.

Examples to me would be the role of admittingly unrealistic models and
assumptions, the very status of this science as a human science, the
neglect of the historic dimension in central parts of economic theory.

So I would be happy to see this list being created. Hopefully it could
help to unsettle some seemingly settled questions.

Andreas Goesele
Institut fuer Gesellschaftspolitik
Kaulbachstr. 31a
D-80539 Muenchen