Don’t practice what you preach
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Heterodox economists, most notably Tony Lawson, have come under suspicion of not being true pluralists, but ‘strategic pluralists’ or ‘paradigm warriors’. But should an advocate of pluralism be a pluralist himself? Though this assertion sounds like a truism, I argue against it. More specifically, this paper clarifies the notion of pluralism by introducing an often neglected but crucial distinction between different levels at which pluralism can be situated. From within this framework, I argue why paradigm warriors and strategic pluralists need not undermine pluralism but can indeed even strengthen it.
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