Situational analysis
Science is a trial-and-error process: ignorance is the starting point, great insights are few and far between. Economics is a failed science. The awkward mixture of theoretical and political economics has not produced satisfactory results with regard to material and logical consistency. Hence theoretical economics has to be extricated from political economics and reconstructed upon objective foundations. Advanced theory, i.e. assertions beyond the informative description of various subfields, is largely vacuous. Description, unsubstantiated modeling, psychologism, biologism, physicalism, sheer toolism, plain observationism, myopic empiricism, historicism, exegesis, rhetoric, or metaphor do not make a consistent and empirically valid theory. Orthodoxy cannot give a theoretical account of how the actual economy works, neither can Heterodoxy. Practitioners and down-to-earth empiricists cannot see beyond their noses. Within the accustomed conceptual frameworks, real progress is impossible. The situation calls for a new Paradigm. The new Paradigm calls for objective formal foundations. In the most general terms, the economics Paradigm Shift consists of switching from the behavior-centric bottom-up approach to the structure-centric top-down approach. This is comparable to the Copernican turn from geo-centrism to helio-centrism.
AXEC's mission is
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to explain how the monetary economy works,
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to elaborate the logical and material implications of the structural-systemic axiom set,
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to identify the errors/mistakes in orthodox and heterodox approaches,
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to communicate research results in the form of working papers that are freely accessible on SSRN,
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to provide an AXECwiki knowledge platform,
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to encourage independent testing of AXEC theorems,
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to integrate viable pieces of existing theories into the overarching macro-axiomatic Paradigm,
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to sharpen the demarcation between science/nonscience in economics and to bring forward science,
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to protect the intellectual property rights of all contributors to the AXEC Project,
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to accomplish the first complete Paradigm Shift on the web.
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"The procedure of the axiomatic method, as it is expressed here, amounts to a deepening of the foundations of the individual domains of knowledge — a deepening that is necessary for every edifice that one wishes to expand and to build higher while preserving its stability."
Hilbert
"... if we wish to place economic science upon a solid basis, we must make it completely independent of psychological assumptions and philosophical hypotheses."
Slutzky
Economists owe the world the true economic theory, that is, a theory that satisfies the scientific standards of material and formal consistency.
... browse the AXEC working papers on SSRN
The logical interface between objective macrofoundations and subjective valuations 2022
Stop Recycling Dead Economic Theories, Start the Paradigm Shift 2020
How the Intelligent Non-Economist can Refute Every Economist Hands Down 2015
Major Defects of the Market Economy 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: Financial Markets 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: Behavior 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: Institutions 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: Employment 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: Profit 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: Money, Credit, Interest 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: Aggregate Demand 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: Say's Law 2015
Essentials of Constructive Heterodoxy: The Market 2015
Onblog Economics Muddle Busting 2014
Economics for Economists 2014
The Profit Theory is False Since Adam Smith. What About the True Distribution Theory? 2014
The Synthesis of Economic Law, Evolution, and History 2014
The Three Fatal Mistakes of Yesterday Economics: Profit, I=S, Employment 2014
The Law of Supply and Demand: Here it is Finally 2014
Towards Full Employment Through Applied Algebra and Counter-Intuitive Behavior 2014
Objective Principles of Economics 2014
Profit for Marxists 2014
The Truly General Theory of Employment: How Keynes Could Have Succeeded 2014
The Logic of Value and the Value of Logic 2014
Mr. Keynes, Prof. Krugman, IS-LM, and the End of Economics as We Know It 2014
Loanable Funds vs. Endogenous Money: Krugman is Wrong, Keen is Right 2014
Exchange in the Monetary Economy 2014
Mathematical Proof of the Breakdown of Capitalism 2014
Say's Law: A Rigorous Restatement 2013
Debunking Squared 2013
The Ideal Economy: A Prototype 2013
Redemption and Depression 2013
The Structural Price Mechanism 2013
Understanding Profit and the Markets: The Canonical Model 2013
How to Get Rid of Supply-Demand-Equilibrium 2013
Toolism! A Critique of Econophysics 2013
The Calculating Auctioneer, Enlightened Wage Setters, and the Fingers of the Invisible Hand 2013
Walras's Law of Markets as Special Case of the General Period Core Theorem 2013
Settling the Theory of Saving 2013
Confused Confusers: How to Stop Thinking Like an Economist and Start Thinking Like a Scientist 2013
Intertwined Real and Monetary Stochastic Business Cycles 2012
Make a Bubble, Take a Free Lunch, Break a Bank 2012
Keynes's Employment Function and the Gratuitous Phillips Curve Disaster 2012
The Common Error of Common Sense: An Essential Rectification of the Accounting Approach 2012
General Formal Foundations of the Virtuous Deficit-Profit Symmetry and the Vicious Debt Deflation 2012
Crisis and Methodology: Some Heterodox Misunderstandings 2012
Geometrical Exposition of Structural Axiomatic Economics (I): Fundamentals 2012
The Rhetoric of Failure: A Hyper-Dialog About Method in Economics and How to Get Things Going 2012
Zur axiomatische Einheit von Kreislauf-, Geld-, Preis- und Verteilungstheorie 2012
Income Distribution, Profit, and Real Shares 2012
Taxes, Profits, and Employment: A Structural Axiomatic Analysis 2012
The Emergence of Profit and Interest in the Monetary Circuit 2011
Trade, Productivity, Income, and Profit: The Comparative Advantage of Structural Axiomatic Analysis 2011
Why Post Keynesianism is Not Yet a Science 2011
The Value of Water and Diamonds: Back to Square One 2011
Matter Matters: Productivity, Resources, and Prices 2011
The Propensity Function as General Formalization of Economic Man/Woman 2011
The Wine Maker's Business and the Origin of Interest in a Monetary Economy 2011
When Ricardo Saw Profit, He Called it Rent: On the Vice of Parochial Realism 2011
Geometrical Exposition of Structural Axiomatic Economics (II): Qualitative and Temporal Aggregation 2011
Increasing Returns and Stability 2011
Primary and Secondary Markets 2011
Squaring the Investment Cycle 2011
Uniform Profit Ratios 2011
Reconstructing the Quantity Theory (II) 2011
Reconstructing the Quantity Theory (I) 2011
Unemployment Out of Nowhere 2011
Exploitation and Its Unintended Outcomes. An Axiomatic View of Marx's Surplus Value. 2011
Properties of an Economy Without Human Beings 2011
The Coherency of Money, Profit, Price, and Distribution 2011
Beginning, Crises, and End of the Money Economy 2011
What is Wrong With Heterodox Economics? Kalecki's Profit Theory as an Example 2011
Schumpeter and the Essence of Profit 2011
Keynes's Missing Axioms 2011
The Pure Logic of Value, Profit, Interest 2011
Scrap the Lot and Start Again 2011
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Alternative access
SSRN current updating, latest revisions of working papers, direct downloads
MPRA documentation, first versions of working papers, direct downloads
ECONBIZ third party documentation, partly references and partly indirect downloads
COMMONS equations, theorems, laws, graphics
"What particular reality is described by a given theory can be ascertained only from that theory's axiomatic foundation."
Georgescu-Roegen
"I find it quite amazing that it is possible to predict what will happen by mathematics, which is simply following rules which really have nothing to do with what is going on in the original thing."
Feynman