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Value, historicity, and economic epistemology : an archaeology of economic science / Alain Herscovici.

Herscovici, Alain, author.
2023
HB72
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Title
Value, historicity, and economic epistemology : an archaeology of economic science / Alain Herscovici.
Author
Herscovici, Alain, author.
ISBN
9783031211577 (electronic bk.)
303121157X (electronic bk.)
9783031211560
3031211561
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21157-7
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 228 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-21157-7 doi
Call Number
HB72
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.01
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.
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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

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

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

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

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