Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Cedrini, Mario
Author-Email: mario.cedrini@unito.it
Author-Name: Magda, Fontana
Author-Email: magda.fontana@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Just Another Niche in the Wall? How Specialization Is Changing the Face of Mainstream Economics.
Abstract: There is considerable discussion on so-called ‘mainstream pluralism’, that is, on the co-presence of a 
variety of research programmes in today’s mainstream economics that: 1. significantly deviate from the neoclassical 
core; 2. are pursued by different, often separate communities of researchers; 3. have their origins outside economics.
The literature tends to regard mainstream pluralism as a transitory state towards a new, post-neoclassical, mainstream. 
This paper advances a new interpretation: it suggests that the changing and fragmented state of mainstream economics is likely
to persist over time under the impact of specialization (as a self-reinforcing mechanism) and the creation of new specialties 
and approaches, also through collaboration with researchers from other disciplines.
Length: pages 38
Creation-Date: 2017-03
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2017dip/wp_6_2017.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:cesmep:201702