Heterodoxy serves as an umbrella term to cover the coming together of separate projects or traditions. In answering the question, ‘what distinguishes heterodoxy from the orthodoxy?’, the author argues that matters of ontology are central. In answering the question, ‘how are the various traditions that make up the modern heterodoxy to be distinguished from each other?’, the author defends criter...

This paper examines change on the economics research frontier, and asks whether the current competition between new research programs may be supplanted by a new single dominant approach in the future. The paper discusses whether economics tends to be dominated by a single approach or reflect a pluralism of approaches, and argues that historically it has alternated between the two. It argues tha...

In economic science dominate orthodox economics (mainstream respectively neoclassical economics). Despite its numerous intellectual failures, continue to prevail in teaching at universities. A certain alternative is heterodox economics, which consists of three groups theoretical approaches, represented by the Left-wing heterodoxy and Neo-Austrian school (we include them together Old heterodoxy)...

There is persistent heterodoxy in the physics literature concerning the proper treatment of those quantons that are unstable against spontaneous decay. Following a brief litany of this heterodoxy, I develop some of the consequences of assuming that such quantons can exist, undecayed and isolated, at definite times and that their Lorentz covariant treatment can be carried out within a standard q...

Some heterodox economists, most notably Tony Lawson, have come under suspicion of not being true pluralists, but ‘strategic pluralists’: their advocacy of pluralism is thought to be merely instrumental to a hidden monist agenda. This paper does not aim to judge the accused but rather to assess the accusations; the focus is on clarifying the notion of pluralism itself. First a paradox is found t...