{"title":"David Colander and Modern Economics","authors":"Ricard P. F. Holt","doi":"10.1057/s41302-024-00289-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article gives an appraisal of the work of David Colander. His economic focus and the problems he pursued made him a different economist. Colander was less interested in theory and more concerned with policy and applied economics since he saw most economists doing applied policy and teaching. What limited the work and teaching of most economists was using a strict method of science when a different method that is more eclectic would be more appropriate. A crucial part of his work is viewing the economy and the economic profession as an adaptive complex system.</p>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41302-024-00289-y","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article gives an appraisal of the work of David Colander. His economic focus and the problems he pursued made him a different economist. Colander was less interested in theory and more concerned with policy and applied economics since he saw most economists doing applied policy and teaching. What limited the work and teaching of most economists was using a strict method of science when a different method that is more eclectic would be more appropriate. A crucial part of his work is viewing the economy and the economic profession as an adaptive complex system.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.