The goal of the movement is to "reinvigorate the discipline ... [and bring] economics back into the service of society".
[1] Some have argued that economics had greater scientific pluralism in the past compared to the monist approach that is prevalent today.
[6] In 1992, a petition organised by Geoffrey Hodgson, Uskali Mäki, and Deirdre McCloskey was published as a paid advertisement in The American Economic Review.
[8][9] In 2000, students at the École Normale Supérieure protested and announced the creation of the post-autistic economics movement.
[16] They also devised a course entitled "Bubbles, Panics and Crashes: an Introduction to Alternative Theories of Crisis", which the economic department rejected.