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Economic research can in some ways be likened to a vast building site; yet the increasingly fragmented and specialized nature of such research suggests that we may simply be building a latterday Tower of Babel. While greater specialization is a logical consequence of progress in economics, it is also prompted by academic self-justification. It does not necessarily lead to a clearer understanding of how the economy works.
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Bürgenmeier, B. (1992). Introduction. In: Socio-Economics: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2966-4_1
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