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The Historicity of Economic Sciences: The Main Epistemological Ruptures

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  • Alain Herscovici

    (Department of Economics and Post Graduate Program in Economics at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória (Brazil))

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The object of this work is threefold: it consists (a) in explaining and justifying, based on Foucault's concept of episteme, the epistemological foundations from which Classical Economics, Keynesian Economics and Neoclassical Economics were built; (b) in studying the nature of the epistemological ruptures that allow differentiating these schools; and (c) in defining the degree of incommensurability of these different paradigms. In the first part, I will define the main epistemological tools that allow studying the birth and evolution of science. In the second part, I will study the nature of the epistemological ruptures that characterize these evolutions and these different schools.

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  • Alain Herscovici, 2024. "The Historicity of Economic Sciences: The Main Epistemological Ruptures," The Journal of Philosophical Economics, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, The Journal of Philosophical Economics, vol. 17(1), pages 119-155, Annual.
    • Handle: RePEc:bus:jphile:v:17:y:2024:i:1:n:5
    DOI: 10.46298/jpe.12219
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    • B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General
    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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