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Heurística: notas muy preliminares para analizar problemas en economía

Heuristics: very preliminary notes in economics to analyze problems

Fernando Estrada

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: In the field of economics could highlight three theses models to evaluate information and arguments that are opposed to the schemes existing political economy. Thesis work we derive Albert Hirschman around what he calls "rhetorical intransigence." Explain this author: (1) the perversity thesis, which holds that any deliberate action to improve some aspect of political, social or economic order only serves to exacerbate the situation to be remedied; (2) the futility thesis which states that attempts to carry out social reforms will be zero or limited in scope; (3) the theory of risk, ensuring that the political and social costs of the proposed reforms is considerably high and jeopardize what has been achieved. An applied research from studies of argumentation can describe how these rhetorical enroll in specific cases, to show two things: first, what were the predominant communication techniques in the economic environment over a historical period and why some groups are reported as abnormally

Keywords: Heuristics; Methodology; Language; Rhetoric; Hirschman; Von Neumann; Game Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A2 B4 B40 B41 D74 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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