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stem.16 Âbnes der op for en mere dynamisk fortolkning, kan matematisk forma-
lisme kun frembringe visse teoretiske Iandvindinger i vores forstâelse af det
0konomiske univers mange komplekse forhold. Eller med Dow (1998:1827):
If
social systems are in fact open and organic, then axiomatisation can illuminate
only parts ofsuch systems; this leaves scope for argument by means of a variety
of other methods, appropriate to complex systems where knowledge is partial
and uncertain
. At 0konomer samtidig har “glemt”17 ogsâ at henvende sig til den
bredere offentlighed med resultaterne fra deres forskning, jf. Krugman (1998),
g0r ikke 0konomis status og image blandt ikke-0konomer mindre sârbar. Og
deltager 0konomer ikke mere aktivt i den generelle samfundsdebat, hvordan (og
hvorfra) skal potentielle fremtidige 0konomistuderende da erfare, at 0konomi
ogsâ er andet og mere end blot matematisk formalisme? Eller med Leijon-
hufvud (1997:198):
Fifty years ago, Paul Samuelson quoted J. Willard Gibbs
on the frontispiece of his Foundations of Economics: ‘Mathematics is a lan-
guage’. One can easily appreciate why Samuelson felt the point needed making
at the time. Today, the profession may be more in need of a reminder form an
‘unknown thinker’: English is a language too’
.

Som en konsekvens heraf b0r der være rum for en metodologisk pluralisme i
0konomi. Den relevante 0konomiske metode afhænger ogsâ af, hvilke 0kono-
miske problemstillinger man vil belyse. Selv om det 0konomiske system grund-
læggende er et âbent socialt system, b0r ogsâ post-keynesiansk inspirerede
0konomer erkende at anvendelse af formalisme kan generere indsigt og ny er-
kendelse, hvad Chick & Dow (2001) da heller ikke benægter. Pâ den anden side
mâ mainstream 0konomer ogsâ anerkende, at en anden 0konomisk metode, end
den de selv anvender, kan frembringe viden om væsentlige forhold, der er af
betydning for en bedre forstâelse af, hvorledes de 0konomiske processer forl0-
ber i et stadigt foranderligt moderne samfund.

16 Jf. Chick (1998:1866): Closure precludes openness to history and creativity. Open systems are
path-dependent and non-ergodic and may exhibit neither event regularities nor unique equilib-
rium
.

17 Jo st0rre en fokusering der bliver lagt pâ det værdifulde i alene en publicering i internationalt
anerkendte tidsskrifter, kan man vel ikke fortænke 0konomer, der 0nsker at g0re videnskabelig
karriere, i at fravælge ikke-meriterende aktiviteter sâ som almindelig forskningsformidling.

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