On error: undisciplined thoughts on one of the causes of intellectual path dependency
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- Erkan Gurpinar & Altug Yalcintas, 2015. "One Long Argument in Economics: Explaining Intellectual Inertia in terms of Evolutionary Ontology," STOREPapers 2_2015, Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica - StorEP.
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Errors in the history of ideas; intellectual path dependence; intellectual pathologies; the Coase Theorem; historical small events;JEL classification:
- B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
- B25 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
- B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2012-04-17 (All new papers)
- NEP-HIS-2012-04-17 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-HME-2012-04-17 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2012-04-17 (History & Philosophy of Economics)
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