Trends in the development of economic science: an urgent need or a trend of the times?

Trends in modern economic thought are developing almost exponentially: one new direction appears and its subdirectories immediately «arise». So, along with the already recognized directions in economic theory, there are such directions as econophysics, bioeconomics, unit economics. What is the need for so many new directions? Aren’t some of them essentially identical destinations, but with different names? These and other issues are relevant issues for a certain period of time. The article attempts to study modern economic trends and to define some relatively new directions in economic thought, such as: behavioral economics, impression economics, cognitive economics, attention economics, etc.

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