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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... variables in order to arrive at a predetermined result . He also believed that those whose intel- lectual training is only that of technicians are not equipped to understand a critique of their mental habits ; while those whose natural ...
... variables in order to arrive at a predetermined result . He also believed that those whose intel- lectual training is only that of technicians are not equipped to understand a critique of their mental habits ; while those whose natural ...
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... variables such as traditional sources of power , political culture , institutional legitimacy , and the strength of civil society will remain critical to regime outcomes and eco- nomic development . Economic rationalism and ...
... variables such as traditional sources of power , political culture , institutional legitimacy , and the strength of civil society will remain critical to regime outcomes and eco- nomic development . Economic rationalism and ...
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... variables identified . The new branches of mathematics , algebra and calculus , were invented for this purpose , but both employed the same method as Euclid and all mathe- maticians and mathematical sciences since , that is , the ...
... variables identified . The new branches of mathematics , algebra and calculus , were invented for this purpose , but both employed the same method as Euclid and all mathe- maticians and mathematical sciences since , that is , the ...
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... variable labour inputs to provide a “ loaf of bread , before it came to our use , if we could trace them all which ' twould be almost impossible , at least too long to reckon up . " Yet he does hazard the guess , that the Indian's ...
... variable labour inputs to provide a “ loaf of bread , before it came to our use , if we could trace them all which ' twould be almost impossible , at least too long to reckon up . " Yet he does hazard the guess , that the Indian's ...
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