Czy kryzys w teorii ekonomii jest głębszy niż w gospodarce?
Is Crisis in Economics Deeper Than in the Economy?

Summary/Abstract: At the early stage of the present crisis mainstream economics started to be widely criticized both by external commentators and by academic economists themselves. One could then expect that following this criticism, a radical change in the way research in economics is conducted and in the balance of power between main schools of thought would occur. However, as the later stages of the world crisis have revealed, such a radical shift, particularly between the orthodoxy and the heterodoxy, has become much less likely. This paper attempts at highlighting some possible explanations of why this shift has lost its momentum. According to the first hypothesis, this has been caused by the effective implementation of conventional and unconventional tools of macroeconomic policy. According to the second one, the ongoing lines of research within the heterodox economics are too dispersed and generally not sufficiently advanced to offer a consistent alternative that could challenge the mainstream. According to the third one, the world economic crisis and the resulting criticism against economics have provided strong incentives to fill gaps in theoretical and empirical knowledge which in turn has made this criticism less convincing.

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