Confused confusers. How to stop thinking like an economist and start thinking like a scientist

Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont (2013): Confused confusers. How to stop thinking like an economist and start thinking like a scientist.

Abstract

The present paper takes it as an indisputable fact that subjective-behavioral thinking leads, for deeper methodological reasons, with inner necessity to inconclusive filibustering about the agents’ economic conduct and therefore has to be replaced by something fundamentally different. The key argument runs as follows: (a) the subjective-behavioral approach can not, as a matter of principle, afford a correct profit theory, (b) without a correct profit theory it is impossible to comprehend how the monetary economy works, (c) without this knowledge economic policy proposals are unjustifiable, (d) thinking like an economist may be hazardous to the economy.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: new framework of concepts; structure-centric; axiom set; objectivestructural; income; profit; General Complementarity; subjective-behavioral; methodological individualism; opus magnum
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E00 - General; D - Microeconomics > D0 - General > D00 - General; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology > B41 - Economic Methodology

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