Schumpeter and the History of Economic Thought

Serie

  • MPRA Paper

Resumen

  • Schumpeter’s The History of Economic Analysis is a tour de force of scholarship. The display of erudition is truly unbelievable. How may one man and then digested have acquired much knowledge? Not only does the History offer two thousand years of economics, from Aristotle to Paul Samuelson, but also, it expertly almost ranges over all the other social sciences, history and belles’ letters as well. For more than 1,100 pages on the prose flows in a way That one has come to expect from Schumpeter the fluent style, the vivid analogy, the striking metaphor, the arresting aside. Our goal is to present the main thoughts of Schumpeter on the complex relationships between Economic History and Epistemology of Science. This design has three aspects that interest us: (a) its amplitude to conceive the economy as part of the overall development of scientific knowledge; (B) its relevance and the Applied examples used by the author; (C) its methodological facing tremendous problems facing the economy with the other sciences.

fecha de publicación

  • 2014

Líneas de investigación

  • Econometric
  • Economics History
  • Epistemology
  • Industrial
  • Schumpeter

Issue

  • 59053