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Por qué la economía ortodoxa transfirió su obsesión por un concepto (mercado) a la de un ritual (matemáticas)

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Este paper analiza las dificultades de la teoría económica ortodoxa para llegar a un “lugar de encuentro” entre significado y materia, contenido y forma, creencias y realidad. Mientras en los 1960s y ‘70s primó la necesidad de un discurso militante en la lucha por consolidar el cambio de sistema: del keynesianismo de post-posguerra al neoliberalismo desatado, luego, en cambio, con la incontestable supremacía neoliberal, la economía, como disciplina, tuvo un dilema de connotación renacentista: redescubrir su identidad. La tarea ya no era seguir re-legitimizando al capital, sino re-legitimizarse a sí misma; para eso intentó transformarse en lo que no era, ni podría ser: “ciencia dura” − lo que la llevó a fijarse más en métodos que en el significado de sus ideas. Y así cayó en un modelo de ciencias ya obsoleto en las Ciencias Naturales: aquel del determinismo mecánico, el de la “causalidad simple” característico de la física Siglo-XIX.

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  • Palma, José Gabriel, 2018. "Por qué la economía ortodoxa transfirió su obsesión por un concepto (mercado) a la de un ritual (matemáticas)," Estudios Nueva Economía, Estudios Nueva Economía, vol. 5(1), pages 7-20.
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    Keywords

    ontología; metodología; fundamentalismo; idolatría; irrelevancia;
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    JEL classification:

    • B13 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Wicksellian)
    • B20 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - General
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • C02 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Mathematical Economics
    • E13 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Neoclassical

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