Leontief et l'économie comme science empirique: la signification opérationnelle des lois

Akhabbar, Amanar (2007): Leontief et l'économie comme science empirique: la signification opérationnelle des lois. Published in: Economies et Sociétés , Vol. 10-11, No. 39 (2007): pp. 1745-1788.

Abstract

From the 1930s, Leontief defended the validity of input-output analysis on the basis of a very specific epistemology: operationalism. Operationalism was not proper to Leontief but it was a common epistemological reference from the 1930s to the 1950s –especially about the status of scientific laws. The epistemological discussions around operationalism permits, in retrospect, to enlighten the debates about the theoretical foundations of the production function of Leontief.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Leontief and economics as an empirical science: the “operational meaning” of laws
• Language: French
• Keywords: Leontief; production function; complementary factors; substitutions; Cowles Commission; measurement; Koopmans; Klein; Carnap; operationalism; operationism; rule of inference; law
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 > B21 - Microeconomics; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 > B23 - Econometrics ; Quantitative and Mathematical Studies; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C67 - Input-Output Models; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C01 - Econometrics

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