Some of the initiators, particularly those with a
social science background, but also some of the
natural scientists, emphasized that the economy is
embedded in a broader social and cultural system,
that nature, economy, society and culture co-evolve,
that human behaviour cannot be understood only in
terms of dthe economic manT, so the need for
including social and institutional perspectives was
emphasized. This view emphasizes the need for
transdisciplinarity and pluralism in relation to social
sciences other than economics.