 Against a post-Hayekian economic philosophyMarlyse Pouchol () Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, 2013, issue 65, 203-226 Abstract: The article takes a position on an approach that puts economic philosophy in a field consisting of three types of intersection: between political economy and social philosophy, between normative economics and moral philosophy, and finally between economics and philosophy of science. It shows, firstly, that this economic philosophy presupposes a Hayekian conception of the formation of the human mind and ways of economic progress, a design that offers the possibility of linking arguments of biological, moral and epistemological type in the same problematic. Despite this heritage, it is also undeniable that economic philosophy takes a distance with respect to Hayek, in particular, from the point of view of the criteria for the validity of a theory. While Hayek is animated by a concern for scientific truth, economic philosophy considers it necessary to establish another criterion for validity, this time, the predictive ability of a theory. But we should not assume that this change indicates a critical distance from the Austrian author, but rather an act of further allegiance. Keywords: economic philosophy; Hayek; methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpo:journl:y:2013:i:65:p:203-226 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy is currently edited by Claire Pignol More articles in Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy from L'Harmattan |
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