Value, Historicity, and Economic Epistemology: An Archaeology of Economic Science Alain Herscovici

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• ISBN 10: 303121157X
• ISBN 13: 9783031211577
• Author: Alain Herscovici

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. An Archeology of Economic Science: From the Physiocrats to the Neoclassics
2. History of Sciences and Epistemology
3. From Physiocratic School to Neoclassical Economics
4. The Different Epistemological Trajectories: From Archeology to Genealogy
Part II. Epistemological Ruptures: Three Contemporary Examples
5. The Reswitching of Techniques and Its Epistemological Implications: A Deepening of Criticism
6. Hayek and Neoclassic Economics: Some Dangerous Liaisons?
7. Money, Finance and Real Economy
8. Beyond Episteme: The Concept of Order
9. General Conclusion

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