| According to {{harvtxt|Colander|2000}}, {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004}}, and {{harvtxt|Davis|2008}} contemporary [[mainstream economics]] is evolving to be more "eclectic",<ref name=COL2000a>"Economists today are not neoclassical according to any reasonable definition of the term. They are far more eclectic, and concerned with different issues than were the economists of the early 1900s, whom the term was originally designed to describe." {{harvtxt|Colander|2000|p=130}}</ref><ref name=COL2000b>"Modern economics involves a broader world view and is far more eclectic than the neoclassical terminology allows." {{harvtxt|Colander|2000|p=133}}</ref> diverse,<ref name=CHR04a>"In our view, the interesting story in economics over the past decades is the increasing variance of acceptable views..." {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|p=487}}</ref><ref name=CHR04b>"In work at the edge, ideas that previously had been considered central to economics are being modified and broadened, and the process is changing the very nature of economics." {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|p=487}}</ref><ref name=CHR04c>"When certain members of the existing elite become open to new ideas, that openness allows new ideas to expand, develop, and integrate into the profession... These alternative channels allow the mainstream to expand, and to evolve to include a wider range of approaches and understandings... This, we believe, is already occurring in economics." {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|pp=488–489}}</ref> and [[Pluralism in economics|pluralistic]].<ref name=DAV2008a>"despite an increasing pluralism on the mainstream economics research frontier..." {{harvtxt|Davis|2008|p=353}}</ref> {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004}} state that contemporary mainstream economics is "moving away from a strict adherence to the holy trinity – rationality, selfishness, and equilibrium", citing complexity economics along with [[recursive economics]] and [[dynamical system]]s as contributions to these trends.<ref name=CHR04d>{{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|p=485}}</ref> They classify complexity economics as now mainstream but [[Heterodox economics|non-orthodox]].<ref name=CHR04e>"The second (Santa Fe) conference saw a very different outcome and atmosphere than the first. No longer were mainstream economists defensively adhering to general equilibrium orthodoxy... By 1997, the mainstream accepted many of the methods and approaches that were associated with the complexity approach." {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|p=497}} {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|pp=490–492}} distinguish between orthodox and mainstream economics.</ref><ref name=DAV2008b>{{harvtxt|Davis|2008|p=354}}</ref> | | According to {{harvtxt|Colander|2000}}, {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004}}, and {{harvtxt|Davis|2008}} contemporary [[mainstream economics]] is evolving to be more "eclectic",<ref name=COL2000a>"Economists today are not neoclassical according to any reasonable definition of the term. They are far more eclectic, and concerned with different issues than were the economists of the early 1900s, whom the term was originally designed to describe." {{harvtxt|Colander|2000|p=130}}</ref><ref name=COL2000b>"Modern economics involves a broader world view and is far more eclectic than the neoclassical terminology allows." {{harvtxt|Colander|2000|p=133}}</ref> diverse,<ref name=CHR04a>"In our view, the interesting story in economics over the past decades is the increasing variance of acceptable views..." {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|p=487}}</ref><ref name=CHR04b>"In work at the edge, ideas that previously had been considered central to economics are being modified and broadened, and the process is changing the very nature of economics." {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|p=487}}</ref><ref name=CHR04c>"When certain members of the existing elite become open to new ideas, that openness allows new ideas to expand, develop, and integrate into the profession... These alternative channels allow the mainstream to expand, and to evolve to include a wider range of approaches and understandings... This, we believe, is already occurring in economics." {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|pp=488–489}}</ref> and [[Pluralism in economics|pluralistic]].<ref name=DAV2008a>"despite an increasing pluralism on the mainstream economics research frontier..." {{harvtxt|Davis|2008|p=353}}</ref> {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004}} state that contemporary mainstream economics is "moving away from a strict adherence to the holy trinity – rationality, selfishness, and equilibrium", citing complexity economics along with [[recursive economics]] and [[dynamical system]]s as contributions to these trends.<ref name=CHR04d>{{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|p=485}}</ref> They classify complexity economics as now mainstream but [[Heterodox economics|non-orthodox]].<ref name=CHR04e>"The second (Santa Fe) conference saw a very different outcome and atmosphere than the first. No longer were mainstream economists defensively adhering to general equilibrium orthodoxy... By 1997, the mainstream accepted many of the methods and approaches that were associated with the complexity approach." {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|p=497}} {{harvtxt|Colander|Holt|Rosser|2004|pp=490–492}} distinguish between orthodox and mainstream economics.</ref><ref name=DAV2008b>{{harvtxt|Davis|2008|p=354}}</ref> |
− | According to , , and contemporary mainstream economics is evolving to be more "eclectic", diverse, and pluralistic. state that contemporary mainstream economics is "moving away from a strict adherence to the holy trinity – rationality, selfishness, and equilibrium", citing complexity economics along with recursive economics and dynamical systems as contributions to these trends. They classify complexity economics as now mainstream but non-orthodox. | + | According to Colander (2000), Colander, Holt & Rosser (2004), and Davis (2008) contemporary mainstream economics is evolving to be more "eclectic", diverse, and pluralistic.Colander, Holt & Rosser (2004) state that contemporary mainstream economics is "moving away from a strict adherence to the holy trinity – rationality, selfishness, and equilibrium", citing complexity economics along with recursive economics and dynamical systems as contributions to these trends. They classify complexity economics as now mainstream but non-orthodox. |