Qualitative Economics—A Perspective on Organization and Economic Science

Fast, Michael; Clark, Woodrow W.

doi:10.4236/tel.2012.22029

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“…The shared experiences allow them to form similar perceptions that they jointly reflect on. The experiences also encourage them to explore common solutions to challenges that they face in their life worlds (Fast and Clark, 2012). This enables them to nurture common values and norms that regulate their co-existence and help them cultivate stronger desires to collaborate.…”

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The human side of economic development in Africa: a paradigm shift

Kuada

2015

African Journal of Economic and Management Studies

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Purpose – This editorial builds on the distinction between soft and hard economics and discusses dominant explanations for the development challenges of Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries. It also seeks to offer a backdrop for the papers in the present volume of AJEMS. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – It is based on a review of a selection of literature that highlights the dominant perspectives in neoclassical economics and competing streams of research that provide alternative perspectives. Findings – The review suggests the emergence of a competing paradigm that focuses attention on the human factor in economic growth process – i.e. the development of human capability as a foundation of sustainable inclusive growth. The competing streams of research seem to co-exist today, but there are potentials for paradigmatic criss-crossing in future research. Originality/value – It provides directions for future research into issues of economic growth and poverty alleviation in SSA.

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The human side of economic development in Africa: a paradigm shift

Kuada

2015

African Journal of Economic and Management Studies

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“…If we look away from the conditions on which the data are reproductions of the theories, then that data are constructed on what the theories demand in relation to be applied to justify already held beliefs, policies and conditions. Such a theoretical model for data is constructed by the theories themselves [13] [16]. This tautology, of course, is a problem in itself as it merely comes to be the investigation of economic reality from its own definitions, and thereby will be a limitation of what economics otherwise could be.…”

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Economics as a Science of the Human Mind and Interaction

Fast¹,

Hertel²,

Clark³

2014

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In understanding economics and the organisation of economics, the questions are what constitute economics and the thinking behind economics today? In short what is the field of economics? And in what ways can we connect to and understand this field of study? Of course, the answer to this depends upon the perspective chosen, in which one sees and thinks of economics from a particular philosophical and even political position and perspective. If one takes the perspective on economics from a qualitative paradigm that draws upon the tradition from Kant, Husserl, Simmel, Mead, Schutz, Blumer (see references), then it can be stated that economics cannot only be understood as something that appears in nature. On the contrary, economics must be understood as "something" which results from human behaviour, interaction and groups in human activities and the thinking involved and embedded in those activities. Therefore in analyzing economics it is significant to note that economics belongs to and is being constructed by people due to their everyday lives. What appears as central in those statements, from a qualitative perspective, is that the essences of economics have to be discussed in relation to the mind and thinking related to an understanding of individual and group societal activities. Economics is to be understood as constructed and maintained through everyday human interactions and exchanges, whereby people are creating the meanings of situations with objectives of what are believed as important in the understanding of economics activities, actions and results. Those meanings and definitions of economics are being produced and exchanged in order to become a new comprehensive framework that influences, co-produces, limits and creates contradictions in everyday economic life. This additional qualitative focus [1] outlines the importance of understanding how human cognitions produce meaning of objects, definitions, activities and actions which provides the framework for the field of economics. The epistemological perspective for this is that the objects are not only within themselves. No, instead the objects are as they presents themselves to people, and thereby the meanings we are constructing and attaching to them. The paper will therefore discuss some of the scientific complexities in three areas: mind and thinking; understanding economics as a social activity and construction, and the interplay between economic activities and economic theoretical work.

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Management, Philosophy and Consciousness in the Shaping of Problem-Based Learning

Fast

Clark²

2020

Populism and Higher Education Curriculum Development: Problem Based Learning as a Mitigating Response

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Qualitative Economics—A Perspective on Organization and Economic Science

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

The human side of economic development in Africa: a paradigm shift

The human side of economic development in Africa: a paradigm shift

Economics as a Science of the Human Mind and Interaction

Management, Philosophy and Consciousness in the Shaping of Problem-Based Learning

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