| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 228 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- An Archeology -- Why Foucault? -- Epistemology, History of Economic Thought and History of Ideas -- Epistemology and Historicity -- The History of Economic Ideas and the Historical Method -- Historicity and Substantial Hypothesis -- The General Problematic -- The General Structure of the Book -- References -- Part I An Archeology of Economic Science: From the Physiocrats to the Neoclassics -- 2 History of Sciences and Epistemology |
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History of Science and Epistemology: Internal History Versus External History? -- The Different Conceptions -- The Autonomy of the Scientific Field and the Progress of Science -- The Autonomization Process -- A Relative Autonomy -- Historicity and Epistemology -- The General Problem -- Some Examples in Economic Science -- Episteme and Economic Science -- The Scientific Community: A Heroic Hypothesis -- Foucault's Contribution -- Episteme: A First Approach -- The Different Epistemes -- Episteme, Historicity and Economy -- Kunh and Foucault -- Convergences and Divergences -- The Dynamics of Change |
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Episteme and Nature of Ruptures -- A Taxonomy of Different Schools of Thought -- Physiocracy -- Smith -- Ricardo and Marx -- The Neoclassical School -- References -- 4 The Different Epistemological Trajectories: From Archeology to Genealogy -- Autonomization of Economic Science and Substantial Hypothesis -- Autonomization of Economic Science -- A Progressive Emancipation -- The Substantial Hypothesis: A First Approach -- The Substantial Hypothesis in Different Paradigms -- Wealth, Value and Historicity: The Rupture Introduced by Ricardo -- The Classical Economy -- Marx |
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Neoclassical Economics: Mercantile Objectivity -- A Premonitory Intuition from Cultural Economics -- The Exclusion of Cultural Goods from the Field of Economic Theory: The Van Gogh Paradox -- Use Value: The Relational, Social and Historical Dimension -- The Different Epistemological Trajectories -- A Winding Path -- A Reconstruction of Internal History -- Some Controversies About the Theory of Value -- Keynes Versus Neoclassical Economics: Blaug's Interpretation -- The Incommensurability of Different Paradigms -- An Episteme Proper to Economic Science? -- The Definition of the Object of Study |
| Summary |
This book aims to study, from an approach linked to epistemology and the history of ideas, the evolution of economic science and its differing seminal systems. Today mainstream economics solves certain problems chosen within the scope of "normal science" without questioning the epistemological foundations that support the paradigm within which they were conceived. Contrary to a Neoclassical interpretation, the historicist interpretation shows that, from the incommensurability of the different paradigms, it is impossible to conceive of a progress of economic science, in a long-term perspective. This book ultimately reveals, from the different economic schools of thought analyzed, that there is no pure form of episteme, or system of understanding. Each concrete episteme in the history of economic thought is by nature hybrid in the sense that it contains components from preceding systems of knowledge. Alain Herscovici is Full Professor of the Department of Economics and the Postgraduate Program in Economics, at the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil, and leader of the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) Research Group on Macroeconomics. He is the author of Essays on the Historicity of Capital, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 19, 2023) |
| Subject |
Economics -- Philosophy -- History
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Economics -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031211577 |
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303121157X |
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