ABSTRACT
The three-level structure of paradigms As we have clearly seen, post-neoclassical economic agents are not constructed to ask questions such as: Am I personally living up to my highest existential potential? Are we collectively living up to our highest ideals, and do we even have the highest possible ideals? Such questions simply cannot be asked by economic agents within the post-neoclassical paradigm. These agents are, by assumption, not equipped by the economist to feel their own and their fellow agents’ alienation – to experience existential dissatisfaction, to reflect and inquire about other ways of acting and interacting, and so on.
