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The movement for Post-Autistic Economics was born through the work of Sorbonne economist Bernard Guerrien. Started in Spring 2000 by group of disaffected French economics students, Post-Autistic Economics first reached a wider audience in June 2000 after an interview in Le Monde.
It was supported by the Cambridge Ph.D students in 2001 with the publication of "Opening Up Economics: A Proposal By Cambridge Students" and is signed by 797 students.
Substantively, post-autistic economics resembles its more-developed, primarily American predecessor, behavioral economics, in the sense that both subfields have challenged standard neoclassical assumptions and incorporated ideas from sociology and psychology into economic analysis.
Concept
Mainstream economics is branded 'autistic' due to
- an oversimplistic world view
- an excessive reliance on mathematics
- a refusal to integrate with other discplines
Criticism of the Term
The association of mainstream academic economics with the spectrum of personality profiles and difficulties known as autism has been disputed.
Those with diagnosed, or self-diagnosed Asperger Syndrome, a high functioning condition on the Autistic spectrum, who are active in any of various branches or forms of post-modern economics which reject narrow world views and excessive reliance upon mathematics are likely to feel insulted and stigmatised by this association.
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