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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... self a trained economist in the technical sense he believed the noun desig- nates — as someone educated to perform ... interest . It was not surprising , therefore , that both the nature of his interest and its purport militated against ...
... self a trained economist in the technical sense he believed the noun desig- nates — as someone educated to perform ... interest . It was not surprising , therefore , that both the nature of his interest and its purport militated against ...
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... self - interest into the public inter- est . Like the state of nature , however , these assumptions are perfectly hypo- thetical . Chapter 3 examines the invention of economic science by Smith , and its part in the replacement of ...
... self - interest into the public inter- est . Like the state of nature , however , these assumptions are perfectly hypo- thetical . Chapter 3 examines the invention of economic science by Smith , and its part in the replacement of ...
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... self - interested utility maximizers seeking happiness derived from reaping ... interest — unlike the former , it does not attempt to eradicate it ... interest rate numbers receive front - page coverage in daily newspapers . At some point ...
... self - interested utility maximizers seeking happiness derived from reaping ... interest — unlike the former , it does not attempt to eradicate it ... interest rate numbers receive front - page coverage in daily newspapers . At some point ...
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... own preservation . While the intermediary step between desire and acquisition is ... self - preservation . This reconciliation of op- posites , selfishness ... interest " is not merely compatible with general plenty but is the cause of ...
... own preservation . While the intermediary step between desire and acquisition is ... self - preservation . This reconciliation of op- posites , selfishness ... interest " is not merely compatible with general plenty but is the cause of ...
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... self - interest , because it is from a regard to this that a particular person in a tribe of hunters or shepherds who “ makes bows and arrows , for example , with more readiness and dexterity Adam Smith and the Invention of Economic ...
... self - interest , because it is from a regard to this that a particular person in a tribe of hunters or shepherds who “ makes bows and arrows , for example , with more readiness and dexterity Adam Smith and the Invention of Economic ...
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Deductive Irrationality: A Commonsense Critique of Economic Rationalism Stephen McCarthy,David Kehl Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Deductive Irrationality: A Commonsense Critique of Economic Rationalism Stephen McCarthy,David Kehl Vista de fragmentos - 2008 |
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