TOWARDS QUANTUM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES

Development economics has been built on "physics envy" as in other fields of economics. That's why, although development economics presumes to explain economic phenomena, in fact it is constructive, and designs them. Both orthodox and heterodox developmental approaches, consist of modernist (Newtonian) methodological and metaphOTical tricks and traps. !ronically, although infected by several serious shortcomings, inconsistencies and misconceptualisations, development economics is no longer employed by modernity itself. Development economics which stands at the crossroads of not only various given branches of economics, but also different fields of social sciences, with this very nature, has been neglected by modernist projects in which orthodox and heterodox approaches do (and could) not live together. This point gives a chance to a very different understanding, to a "quantum leap". This paper tries to approach development economics through the lenses of quantum theory (new sciences) which potentially has many implications and metaphors. 30 • Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi. 55-3 Towards Quantum Economic Development: Transcending Boundaries