Download This PaperKnowledge and Interest in Economics
CEDEPLAR Working Paper No. 178
29 Pages Posted: 23 Nov 2002
Date Written: August 2002
Abstract
The article argues the need to preserve the pluralism in economy. The article examines: i) the nature of the knowledge and of its production; ii) the specificity of the knowledge production in economics and the historical and cultural conditionings of the knowledge; iii) the implications of the hegemony of a certain methodological conception in economics.
Keywords: economic methodology, economic imperialism, methodological pluralism, formalism
JEL Classification: B40, B41, B20
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
de Paula Cedeplar, João Antonio and Crocco, Marco and Cerqueira, Hugo Eduardo Araujo da Gama and Albuquerque, Eduardo da Motta e, Knowledge and Interest in Economics (August 2002). CEDEPLAR Working Paper No. 178, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=326660 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.326660
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