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Fundamentos teóricos y leyes económicas en El Capital de Piketty. Un análisis crítico

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  • Juan Pablo Mateo

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El artículo lleva a cabo un análisis crítico, desde la economía política, del modelo teórico de Thomas Piketty en su libro El Capital del siglo XXI. Se destacan numerosas inconsistencias en las relaciones causales que Piketty establece para justificar la existencia de leyes fundamentales del capitalismo. Por ello, se concluye que más bien se trata de fuerzas que operan en un mismo plano, construidas a partir de elementos psicológicos, técnicos y de escasez, y de una serie de hipótesis discutibles sobre la tasa de ahorro, la elasticidad de sustitución, el crecimiento económico y ciertas excepciones a la teoría de la productividad marginal. ***** The article conducts a critical analysis, from a political economy approach, into the theoretical model proposed in Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”. It highlights several inconsistencies in the causal relationships that Piketty establishes to justify the existence of fundamental laws of capitalism. We conclude that these relationships constitute forces that operate in the same space, and have been developed from psychological, technical, and scarce-related elements. They are also a result of a series of questionable assumptions about the savings rate, the elasticity of substitution, economic growth, and certain exceptions to the theory of marginal productivity.

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  • Juan Pablo Mateo, 2017. "Fundamentos teóricos y leyes económicas en El Capital de Piketty. Un análisis crítico," Revista Cuadernos de Economia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID, vol. 36(70), pages 227-249, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000093:015072
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    Keywords

    bienes culturales; economía de la cultura; pensamiento económico; ocio.;
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    JEL classification:

    • B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
    • B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General
    • E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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