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The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics

Volume III: The Planning Accounting Framework (PAF)

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Presents an argument that leads to a reappraisal of the foundations of economics
  • Reappraises the methodological aspects of political economy and the social sciences
  • Promotes a new theory of 'Planology' as a new unified approach to planning and as an autonomous discipline
  • Develops the outline of a "Post-Economics" operational and managerial planning perspective
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. The Planning Accounting Frame (PAF)

    • Franco Archibugi
    Pages 1-44
  3. Spatial Dimensions of the PAF

    • Franco Archibugi
    Pages 45-60
  4. The Political and Practical Use of the PAF

    • Franco Archibugi
    Pages 113-174
  5. Conclusive Considerations to oll Trilogy

    • Franco Archibugi
    Pages 175-221
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 223-308

About this book

This trilogy deals with an epistemology of economics, arguing for a radical overturning of conventional analysis and providing an alternative to political economy and social sciences, based not on positivism, but on a normative and programming paradigm.

Volume III furthers and concludes work presented in Volume I and Volume II, and introduces a concrete and practical example of how to build a Planning Accounting Framework (PAF), as associated with Frisch's 'plan-frame' (explored in Volume II), to demonstrate the extent to which decisions and negotiations can be routed in the social sciences. The PAF is an instrument of the programming approach that can be used to verify the compatibility of decisions and their effects. The author builds on Frisch's classical PAF to maximise the phenomenology of economic systems, and assure a consistent and effective implementation of decision making.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rome, Italy

    Franco Archibugi

About the author

Professor Franco Archibugi is the Founder and Chairman of the Planning Studies Centre in Rome, Italy. Prior to this he taught economics at the University of Florence, Italy and planning at the Universities of Calabria, Palermo, and Naples, Italy. He studied history and philosophy at the Universities of Rome and Heidelberg, and economics at the London School of Economics. He is the author of many books and papers on socio-economic, environmental and urban planning published in Italian, English and other languages.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Programming Approach and the Demise of Economics

  • Book Subtitle: Volume III: The Planning Accounting Framework (PAF)

  • Authors: Franco Archibugi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78063-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78062-7Published: 02 December 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78063-4Published: 21 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 308

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences

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