ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the consequences of the growing diversity of assumptions about human nature for further development of economics. It verifies the third hypothesis, concerning the influence of the differentiated economic views of human nature on the shape of economics, considering whether significant deviations from the neoclassical concept of human nature proposed by modern heterodoxy should remain unnoticed by mainstream economics. Will the mainstream paradigm change in favour of one of the heterodox branches (in a paradigm shift)? Alternatively, it may undergo an eclectic modification involving the adoption of an eclectic view of human nature in the mainstream. Another solution could be pluralistic co-existence of many schools with separate human models. In this variant, it becomes important to create an area allowing these concepts to co-exist and communicate effectively, translating into a complex, transdisciplinary nature of economics. In this context, the monograph draws attention to the extremely important direction of further inspiration, which is ethics in economics and the economy. It might also be the case that the heterodoxy will gradually develop a common core starting from the shared parts in their respective human models, thus laying foundations for a future paradigm of economics and economic sciences in general.
