O realismo crítico e as controvérsias metodológicas contemporâneas em economia
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economic methodology, critical realism, rhetoric of economicsAbstract
This paper aims fo discuss the possibility of scientific knowledge in economics, resting in
economic methodology works. If unfolds how Popper's prescriptive methodology has
been replaced by a increasingly descriptive methodology. The higher and paradoxal
point of this tendency was the adventure of nihilist claims about the scientific status of
economic enquiry, and McCloskey's Rhetoric of Economics is the later approach of this
group. It argues that Critical Realism, as presented in Roy Bhaskar's works, in taking a
broader conception of scientific work (its ontology of science) as base of its
epistemology, gives an alternative way to popper/on positivism, as well a possibility to
reject mccloskeyan nihilism.
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