Towards Linking Four Emerging Paradigms in Economic Theory--Regulationist, Institutionalist, Post-Modernist, And Post-Development (Institutional Economics) (Report‪)‬

1. INTRODUCTION This paper is an epistemological attempt to synthesise four emerging paradigms in economic theory. These paradigms are the regulationist, the institutionalist, the post-modernist, and the post-development. Arguably, these are paradigms rather than models of behaviour because they each presents an analytical framework for examining different economic phenomena. We shall attempt to show that the four paradigms are useful, complementary, and can be symbiotically linked into a broader paradigm especially to examine the phenomenon of low growth in the region.