Cornelius Castoriadis on the Scope and Content of Neoclassical and Marxian Economics

Angelos Vouldis

Journal of Economic Issues, 2018, vol. 52, issue 3, 795-815

Abstract: The paper presents the thought of the political philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis on economic methodology and the neoclassical and Marxian traditions. Castoriadis suggested that the scope of economic theory includes the identification of “local” regularities and not the search for invariant “laws.” He criticized the use of equilibrium and the utilitarian framework in the neoclassical tradition and proposed to approach human agency based on the Aristotelian concept of the “social individual.” In addition, he criticized the deterministic nature of the Marxian “laws.” According to Castoriadis, the use of concepts such as the “production function” and “capital” presents a number of caveats.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2018.1490114

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