Economics imperialism: Ambrosino, Cedrini, and Davis reply to Heisse

In responding to Heisse’s comments in this journal on our article “Today’s economics: one, no one and one hundred thousand” (2024), we clarify that we do not believe economics is already pluralistic, nor that heterodoxy is being taken seriously by the mainstream. As against Heisse’s “everything holds together” thesis, we argue that various factors—including the transformative impact of other disciplines—are bringing about changes in economics, which are not examples of (new) economics imperialism. The path to pluralism depends also on understanding how the discipline is evolving—the actual state of diversity in approaches and content within economics research.