1. Understanding Deeply Without Doing Calculations2. The Schools of Economic Thought as Modes of Existence3. Topos for In-Depth Study of Economic Life4. Al-Fa's Notion of Mash Associating 'What We Live From' and 'What We Live In'5. Towards an Economic Vocabulary Related to Life6. In Search of Modes of Logic Close to Life Beyond Binary Code7. Re-Connecting Mathematics to Life As It Was8. Toward an Ethical Questioning on the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects Related to Life9. Toward the Opening of Data Sciences to Life Beyond AI⁰́₉s Black Box10. The Phenomenon of Avoidance in Economic Literature

Through an examination of the work of great scholars from fields including philosophy, literature, philology,semiology, quantum physics, history,and anthropology, this book argues that building on the contribution of non-economists can open new areas of reflection in economics beyond the usual schools of thought. The purpose of the book is twofold. First, it offers a critique and discussion of the limits of contemporary economic discourse, both mainstream and self-styled alternative theories. The central theme on which the book is built is that the discipline of economics fails to examine the nature of social reality in a systematic way. This prompts the economists to become fully aware of the methodology on which they base their representation, analysis, and argumentation in a way that economists currently are not. Second, the book proposes alternative ways of thinking that can help readers of economics to overcome the current limitations of their discipline. This means going beyond various dominant dualities ⁰́₃ orthodox/heterodox, micro/ macro, epistemology/ontology ⁰́₃ because it is not a question of doing ⁰́₈the economy⁰́₉ differently, but of overcoming the economy as a representation of the world that strives to submit everything to its realm. Thus, the book does not simply propose a broader conceptual framework than that portrayed by mainstream economists or those who propose an alternative approach but raises questions that do not usually come from the minds of economists at all. The book will be of particular interest to readers of economic methodology and pluralism, philosophers of science, and other social scientists interested in methodological issues.

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