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Which of the theoretical abstractions that are common in Neoclassical and neoliberal economics is given incorrectly?

I. Post-Keynesianism, like Piketty’s theory and analysis, refers to another contemporary pole of fragmentation and dissidence in economics within the critical heterodox school and against mainstream economics.

II. Post-Keynesianian economists intensified Keynes’ critique of neoclassical economics and contributed to the critical political economy aspect of Keynes.

III. As post-Keynesian economists radicalize Keynes’ economics including neoclassical economics and the benefits of the capitalist economy, they agree with the neoclassical interpretation of Keynes in the old and new neoclassical synthesis. 

What can be said to be true about Post-Keynesianism?

I. Thomas Piketty is a French economist focusing on public economics.

II. He published his book "General Theory" which received much attention.

III. His research particularly dealt with the inequality in the distribution of income and wealth.

Which of the given facts about Thomas Piketty can be said to be true?

Who was the first to incorporate the Darwinian evolutionary theory into economics against neoclassical economics to explain the economy as a life process in cumulative causation from a holistic, historical, and realist point of view?

When was Marshall's "Principles of Economics" first published?

What do ‘catallactics’ and ‘praxeology’ imply in Hayekian economics?

Which of the below is NOT one of Veblen's works?

I. The German Historical School was one of the main sources that created fragmentation and dissidence in economics, particularly after the late 1880s.

II. The German Historical School was particularly in favor of the free-market liberalism of classical and neoclassical economics. 

III. The Historical School in Germany influenced the American institutionalists in a way that set them apart from neoclassical economics towards the institutionalist conception of the economy.

What can be said to be true about "The German Historical School"?

In which of his books, Schumpeter models the capitalist economy as a ‘static/steady circular flow’ in which all resources are used and there is no sign of change?

Who was the founder of German Historical School?

In the history of economics, what started the fragmentations and bifurcations that have a significant impact on the formation of economics today?

Where was institutional economics born?

I the place of history has lost its importance,

II the dynamic nature of the economic process has been ignored,

III the idea of change has fallen from grace,

IV structures and institutions have no longer been a part of explanation,

V deductive, reductive and mathematical tools and methods have displaced the socially, culturally and politically relevant elements of the economy,

VI the nature and behaviors of economic agents have been taken granted without reference of their non-economic features.

Which of the above are some of the negative results of abstractions of neoclassical and neoliberal aconomies?

I. Thorstein Veblen argued that an institutionalist account of the economy must have a Darwinian evolutionary methodic orientation. 

II. For Veblen, institution means ‘habits of thought’ and institutional change means the changes in habits of thought. 

III. Veblen mentions four types of instincts: ‘parental bent’, ‘workmanship’, 'catallactics', and ‘bent of idle curiosity.

Which of the given statements about Thorstein Veblen can be said to be true?

Which of the below is another name for microeconomics?

What is the term for a critical approach that pays attention to institutions formed by economically, politically, culturally, and socially relevant behaviors in an evolutionary course of change to explain the modus operandi of economy realistically, dynamically, holistically, and historically?

What does "Sonderweg" mean?

I. Institutional economics was born in the USA in the late 19th century but its origins lie in the previous periods and currents of dissenting economics.

II. Thorstein B. Veblen is generally accepted as the founder of institutional economics.

III. The institutional process of the economy is based on Neoliberal economics and can also be defined as Neoliberal. 

What can be said to be true about "Institutional economics"?

What can be said to be true about Neo-Schumpeterian evolutionary economics?

Who had Carl Marx had an admiration for?