Impossible examples in microeconomic textbooks: what justifications ?

Emmanuelle Benicourt () and Sophie Jallais ()
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Sophie Jallais: PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Abstract: In this presentation, we investigate the "impossible examples" we find in microeconomics textbooks. The terminology "impossible examples" designates either examples describing an « impossible world » or examples which describe real world but are partly inconsistent with the very concept or hypothesis they exemplify. Focusing our analysis on the presentation of the « competitive » firm, and on the examples given to illustrate the production process, we ask the question "What can students possibly understand and learn through these impossible examples?"

Keywords: Microeconomics; Examples; Producer; Teaching; Epistemology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-07-03
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Published in Penser l’économie de demain et le futur de l’économie politique, Association Française d'Economie Politique, Jul 2019, Lille, France

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