Deductive Irrationality: A Commonsense Critique of Economic RationalismStephen McCarthy, David Kehl Lexington Books, 2008 M04 29 - 260 páginas Deductive Irrationality examines and critiques economic rationalism from the perspective of political philosophy. The essays in this collection analyze not only the work of founders of the discipline of economics, but also political philosophers influential in this founding and select contributors of seminal theories in modern economic thought—namely, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert E. Lucas Jr., and John F. Muth. The main theme linking all of the essays together is that economics is a product of modern rationalism and shares with that rationalism the belief that the only real knowledge is scientific knowledge. Derived from a scientific method modeled on mathematics, this method gives both modern political science and modern economics their abstract character. Adam Smith's contribution to Western thought was more than mere economics; his innovations and his variance from previous thinkers follows Machiavelli in finding human nature in the realistic conception of examining men as how they are, rather than the classical view that we should look to the idea of man's formal excellence. To Smith, humanity emerges from a desire for self-preservation, where every worker competes to exchange the fruits of their labor with that of others. The result is a gap between the world of "common sense" and the world of theory that practitioners in both fields no longer truly understand. By adopting the perspective of political philosophy, the contributors take an approach that is alien to most economists, and in doing so address many of the currents and tensions that underlie modern economic theory and, by implication, the rational choice theory in political science. |
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... nature at variance from its appearance . Shapiro's second major criticism is that rational choice models failed the test of common sense and contradicted what we know about politics . He cited the example provided by rational choice ...
... nature at variance from its appearance . Shapiro's second major criticism is that rational choice models failed the test of common sense and contradicted what we know about politics . He cited the example provided by rational choice ...
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... nature , it would be possible to de- velop a unified theoretical view of politics and economics.4 Implicit in their proposal was the assumed benefit of the economic method to understanding economic activity . If this method is unsound ...
... nature , it would be possible to de- velop a unified theoretical view of politics and economics.4 Implicit in their proposal was the assumed benefit of the economic method to understanding economic activity . If this method is unsound ...
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... nature is expected to increase our knowledge of the " real world , ” and will increase our ability to predict events in it . This claim is remarkable . McKenzie and Tullock ac- knowledge that economic models do not deal with the real ...
... nature is expected to increase our knowledge of the " real world , ” and will increase our ability to predict events in it . This claim is remarkable . McKenzie and Tullock ac- knowledge that economic models do not deal with the real ...
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... nature , and human nature , and believes that they lie within the modern thought tradition of Hobbes , Spinoza and Machiavelli , which , in turn , are notable for their " essentially mechanistic , materialistic natural philosophy . " 17 ...
... nature , and human nature , and believes that they lie within the modern thought tradition of Hobbes , Spinoza and Machiavelli , which , in turn , are notable for their " essentially mechanistic , materialistic natural philosophy . " 17 ...
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... nature of economics and mathematics themselves as distinct from mastering their definitions , axioms and theorems . Only then can the legacy of economic science and its kinsman , rational choice theory , be placed into its proper ...
... nature of economics and mathematics themselves as distinct from mastering their definitions , axioms and theorems . Only then can the legacy of economic science and its kinsman , rational choice theory , be placed into its proper ...
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