The economic imagination

Autor: Mike Hill, Warren Montag
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Finance and Society, Vol 1, Pp 34-37 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2059-5999
DOI: 10.2218/finsoc.v1i2.1385
Popis: To apply the term ‘magical’ to modern economic thought is to suggest that there remains within it an unassimilated and unexamined residue of irrational thought. Further, it is to hold that this remnant persists despite the discipline's century long attempt to create a ‘pure’ form of economic science. The specific instance of irrationality to which we refer is perfectly visible but systematically overlooked because it exists in economics' most basic assumptions: not only the assumptions about the causal mechanisms that determine human action, but even more in what is increasingly acknowledged to be the theoretical Achilles heel of economics, the concept of the market itself.
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