The participant observer in the formation of economic thought Summa Oeconomiae Perlmanensis

Kurt Dopfer (kurt.dopfer@unisg.ch)

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1998, vol. 8, issue 2, 139-156

Abstract: This essay addresses issues related to the History of Economic Thought, Comparative Economic Analysis, and Institutional Economics alluded to in Mark Perlman's "The Character of Economic Thought, Economic Characters, and Economic Institutions". Specifically, some differences between the strands of American Institutionalism and Schumpeterian economics are brought into focus. Against the background of a review, the ideas of a major participant in the historical analysis of economic thought are discussed. The conclusion is that an evolutionary approach to economics would benefit from any attempt to substitute systematic-discursive theorizing for the received genre of an abstract-deductive approach.

Keywords: History of economic thought; Ontology; Epistemology; Participant observer; Institutional economics; American institutionalism; Schumpeterian economics; Learning; Communication; Styles of editing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 A2 B00 B4 J00 K00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-07-27
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