Aproximações de um olhar foucauldiano sobre o institucionalismo de Thorstein Veblen

Marco Antonio Cavalieri and Iara Lima
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Iara Lima: Department of Economics, Universidade Federal do Paraná

No 107, Working Papers from Universidade Federal do Paraná, Department of Economics

Abstract: Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), considered the first institutionalist author, tried to formulate, in the passage of the 19th century to the 20th, an original system of political economy that was alternative to classical, neoclassical, historicist and marxist thoughts. In this paper, this system of political economy is considered from the Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984) archeology of knowledge perspective. Hence, the paper has two more specific objectives. First, to expose how Foucault’s archeology of knowledge can be used to the study of an original system of political economy. Second, to show that the Veblenian system can be viewed as an instance, incipient and hesitant as it is, in the direction of a surpassing of what Foucault named modern episteme.

Keywords: Thorstein Veblen; Michel Foucault; history of economic thought; archeology of knowledge; institutionalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B15 B31 B49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2010
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