Political economy, experimental or abstract and deductive science?

L’économie politique, science expérimentale ou science abstraite et déductive ?

Guy Bensimon ()
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Guy Bensimon: IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg raise the problem of the scientific status and the method of economics: for these authors economic science has become an experimental science searching cause and effect relationships econometrically tested. We support, on the contrary, that, logically, economics can be only deductive science; about looking for cause and effect relationships, not only it does not characterize science in general, but furthermore it is inadequate in terms of knowledge of social objects.

Keywords: Causality; heterodoxy; orthodoxy; economic logic; method; Causalité; hétérodoxe; orthodoxe; logique économique; épistémologie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-06-28
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2017, Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2017-1, n°3, pp.267-285. ⟨10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06967-6.p.0267⟩

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DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06967-6.p.0267

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