On Open Systems

ABSTRACT To many, economics is seen as increasingly divorced from reality. I shall argue that one of the causes of this divorce is the attachment to closed-system theorising, and advocate instead the method of open systems with partial and temporary closures. Definitions of closed and open systems a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: VICTORIA CHICK
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editora 34 2020-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572004000100003&tlng=en