ABSTRACT

In Reorienting Economics, the author argues that underpinning this heterodox oppositional stance is an implicit commitment to the alternative sort of social ontology. At the level of policy, the concern may well include the analysis of contingencies that recognize the fact of pervasive uncertainty, given the openness of social reality in the present and to the future. Alternatively they can reverse their orientation, and turn to trying to shift what exists in the core, looking for allies in the "new heterodoxy" along the way, so as to improve the chances of successful change for both. Davis essentially focuses upon strategies adopted in the effort to transform modern economics. One such is the notion of pluralism as description, as a claim about the way reality is. As well as airing the concern that I discourage engagement with the mainstream, Jeroen van Bouwel further complains that my approach encourages an isolationist stance within the heterodoxy.