Polemizando: anotações de leitura sobre a crise na ciência econômica
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https://doi.org/10.11606/1980-53571921ambKeywords:
Crisis in economics, Scientific revolution, Normal sciency, Empirical test, AbstractionAbstract
Since the IQZO's, the dismissal of the Keynesian consensus has created a state of insatisfaction and dissent within the community of economists, with several symptoms of an identity crisis. As portrayed by the literature such crisis has four basic dimensions: a) the difficulty of integrating microeconomics and macroeconomics; b) the problematic role of evidence in the empirical testing of theories; c) methodological questions still pending in Econometrics: d) the inadequate level of abstraction which permeates the making of economics. The article ends up exhorting economists to view such symptoms as a stymulus to reexamine basic issues in their discipline and improve the conditions in which the theoretical and methodological debate has been conducted.
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