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Federico Caffè e il letargo della scienza economica (Federico Caffè on the lethargy of economic science)

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  • Piero Roggi

    (Università di Firenze - Dipartimento di Scienze per l’Economia e l’Impresa)

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Many of Federico Caffè’s writings were dedicated to past and present economists: veritable surveys of economic thought. What criteria guided his analysis as a historian of economic thought? Firstly, Federico Caffè believed in scientific revolutions. Not in Kuhn’s way, though. A revolution did not wipe out completely the significance of past theories, but added layers of knowledge to the existing core, in an unceasing attempt to reach for the truth. Secondly, he introduced another criterion, along that of scientificity, to evaluate economic theories: an ethical one. Theories, particularly in the field of political economy, should have been selected for their capacity to enhance the well-being of the population, not only for their internal logical coherence. There were good and bad economic policies: Caffè had no doubt. Given these criteria, Caffè has been an original historian of economic thought, with a peculiar and interesting viewpoint on the evolution of the economic science

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  • Piero Roggi, 2015. "Federico Caffè e il letargo della scienza economica (Federico Caffè on the lethargy of economic science)," Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma, vol. 23(2), pages 15-24.
    • Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:23:y:2015:2:2:p:15-24
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    Keywords

    metodologia; pensiero economico italiano; Federico Caffè; economia del benessere (Methodology; Italian economic thought; Federico Caffè; welfare economics);
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    JEL classification:

    • B20 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - General
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory

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