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dc.contributor.authorCrespo, Ricardo
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-08T14:34:23Z
dc.date.available2017-02-08T14:34:23Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationCrespo, R. F. (2013). Two conceptions of economics and maximisation. Cambridge journal of economics, 37(4), 759-774.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://riu.austral.edu.ar/handle/123456789/354
dc.description.abstractEconomics has evolved from a ‘domain-focused’ conception, i.e. the study of specific kinds of human activities, to a ‘scarcity-based’ conception, i.e. the study of a particular approach to all human choices. It thus enlarged its domain and narrowed its perspective: instrumental maximising. This paper maintains that economics should be domain focused, with a core of scarcity-based analysis of its domain, integrated into a broader analysis. It also holds that the scarcity-based analysis of realities falling outside the economic domain is not economics, but rather a social science broader in respect to the field but narrower in respect to the analysis, and thus partial in its conclusions. Section 2 introduces these versions of economics, Section 3 links them to specific conceptions of rationality, Section 4 provides arguments for the paper’s thesis and Section 5 deals with two related versions of maximisation and argues for adopting one of them.en_US
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dc.publisherCambridge Journal of Economics 2013, 37, 759–774 doi:10.1093/cje/bes076en_US
dc.subjectDefinition of economicsen_US
dc.subjectDefinition of maximisationen_US
dc.subjectRelation with other social sciencesen_US
dc.titleTwo Conceptions of Economics and Maximizationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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