SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR THE SUPPORT OF A WORLD OF SOLIDARITY1

By taking up Marx and Engels' motive to transform utopian types of socialism into a scientific project, this article describes the advances in science on the level of mathematical modeling and simulation. One can see that there is a shiftof focus away from purely deterministic models of mirrori...

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Published in:World review of political economy 2012-04, Vol.3 (1), p.62
Main Author: Fleissner, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain research
Computer simulation
Dialectics
Econometrics
Materialism
Mathematical models
Methods
Science
Simulation
Social sciences
Socialism
Society
Studies
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Summary:By taking up Marx and Engels' motive to transform utopian types of socialism into a scientific project, this article describes the advances in science on the level of mathematical modeling and simulation. One can see that there is a shiftof focus away from purely deterministic models of mirroring reality as Marx has done, via econometric models where randomness is seen as unintended and unnecessary, towards models where randomness becomes important because it allows for a qualitative change of behavior. Corresponding examples are given. Finally, a proposal is made to establish an international working group of political economists using various methods of simulation techniques to interactively accompany socialist projects. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:2042-891X
2042-8928