“Economics meets the other sciences: interpreting new economic programs and proposing new theories for Institutional Cognitive Economics”

This paper provides an interpretative key of the mechanisms underlying the emergence of several new economic programs working on the borders between economic theory and other social sciences. To this aim, it applies and updates J. Davis’ distinction among inward and outward oriented research programs, through the inclusion of new economic strands and the construction of a visual model showing interactions among orthodox, mainstream economics and...