Palavras-chave
Historicismo
Cliffe Leslie (1825-1882)
John Ingram (1963-)
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Stanley Jevons (1835-1882).
Cliffe Leslie (1825-1882)
John Ingram (1963-)
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
Stanley Jevons (1835-1882).
Como Citar
DE MATTOS, Laura Valladão. O desafio historicista à economia política : uma análise do debate metodológico na Inglaterra na década de 1870. Economia e Sociedade, Campinas, SP, v. 28, n. 3, p. 641–663, 2019. Disponível em: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/ecos/article/view/8658151. Acesso em: 19 abr. 2024.
Resumo
Esse artigo analisa um debate, ocorrido na década de 1870, que se seguiu a fortes críticas lançadas por dois economistas historicistas, Thomas Cliffe Leslie e John Kells Ingram, à natureza dedutiva, abstrata e universalista da Economia Política. O objetivo desses economistas era substituir essa ciência por uma Economia de caráter indutivo e histórico. Walter Bagehot e William Stanley Jevons - defensores, respectivamente, da ortodoxia vigente e do marginalismo emergente - reagiram diretamente a esses críticos. A resposta de Bagehot foi reafirmar o método dedutivo da Economia Política, porém restringir a validade dessa ciência às sociedades comerciais avançadas como a Inglaterra. A reação de Jevons foi enfatizar a natureza dedutiva e universal da teoria econômica, mas defender a importância da existência de ramos de históricos e aplicados de investigação. Argumenta-se que, o desafio historicista colocou as questões metodológicas na ‘ordem do dia’ e fez com que esses economistas atribuíssem um ‘lugar’ para a história - mesmo que não aquele almejado por Leslie e Ingram. Analisar esse debate metodológico permite uma compreensão melhor das alternativas que se apresentavam para a Economia ao final do século XIX e pode, quem sabe, jogar luz sobre os rumos que a nossa ciência tomou nas primeiras décadas do século XX.
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SCHABAS, M. A world ruled by number: William Stanley Jevons and the rise of mathematical economics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990.
SHOVE, G. F. The place of Marshall’s principles in the development of economic theory. The Economic Journal, v. 52, n. 208, p. 294-329, 1942.
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ZOUBOULAKIS, M. Walter Bagehot on economic methodology: evolutionism and realisticness. Journal of Economic Methodology, v. 6, n. 1, 1999.
ZOUBOULAKIS, M. Contesting the autonomy of political economy: the early positivist criticism of economic knowledge. European Journal of Economic Thought, v. 15, n. 1, 2008.
BLADEN, V. W. Mill to Marshall: the conversion of the economists. The Journal of Economic History, Supplement: The Tasks of Economic History, v.1, p. 17-29, 1941.
COATS, A. W. The historicist reaction in English political economy 1870-90. Economica, v. 21, n. 82, p. 143-153, 1954.
COATS, A. W. Sociological aspects of British Economic Thought (ca.1880-1930). In: THE SOCIOLOGY and professionalization of economics: British and American economic essays. London: Routledge, 1993. v. 2.
COLLINI, S. et al. Particular polities: political economy and the historical method. In: THAT NOBLE science of politics: a study in nineteenth-century intellectual history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
COLLISON BLACK, R. D. The classical economists and the Irish problem. Oxford Economic Papers, New Series, v. 5, n. 1, 1953.
COLLISON BLACK, R. D. W. S. Jevons and the economists of his time. The Manchester School, v. 30, issue 3, 1962.
COLLISON BLACK, R. D. The political economy of Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie (1826-1882): a re-assessment. European Journal of Economic Thought, v. 9, n. 1, 2002.
DEAN, P. The state and the economic system: an introduction to the history of political economy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
FOXWELL, H. S. The economic movement in England. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, v. 2, n. 1, p. 84-103, 1887.
GRAY, P. The Irish famine. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1995. (Series New Horizons).
GROENEWEGEN, P. D. Alfred Marshall and the establishment of the Cambridge Economic Tripos. History of Political Economy, v. 29, n. 4, 1988.
HODGSON, G. How economics forgot history: the problem of historical specificity in social science. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
HUTCHINSON, T. W. A review of economic doctrines 1870-1929. Oxford: Oxford Clareton Press, 1953.
INGRAM, I. The present position and prospects of political economy. The introductory address delivered in the Section of Economics and Statistics of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Dublin, 1878.
JEVONS, W. S. The future of political economy. The Fortnightly Review (New Series), v. 20, 1876.
JEVONS, W. S. [1879]. Prefaces and Introduction. In: THE THEORY of Political Economy. 3. ed. London and New York: McMillan and Co, 1888.
KEYNES, J. N. [1890]. The scope and method of political economy. In HAUSMAN, Daniel (Org.). The philosophy of economics: an anthology. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
KINZER, B. L. England’s disgrace: J.S. Mill and the Irish question. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
KOOT, G.M. T. E. Cliffe Leslie, Irish social reform, and the origins of the English historical school of economics. History of Political Economy, v. 7, n. 3, 1975.
KOOT, G. M. English historical economics and the emergence of economic history in England. History of Political Economy, v. 12, n. 2, 1980.
LESLIE, T. E. C. [1870]. The political economy of Adam Smith. In: ESSAYS in political economy. 2. ed. London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1888.
LESLIE, T. E. C. [1876]. On the philosophical method of political economy. In: ESSAYS in political economy. 2. ed. London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1888.
LESLIE, T. E. C. [1879]. Political economy and sociology. In: ESSAYS in political economy. 2. ed. London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1888.
LESLIE, T. E. C. [1879]. Untitled review of the second edition [of Jevons’s The theory of political economy]. In: COLLISON BLACK, R. D. (Ed.). Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons. London: The Macmillan Press, 1984. v. 7.
MALONEY, J. Marshall, Cunningham and the emerging economics profession. The Economic History Review, v. 29, 1976.
MALONEY, J. Historical economics, British. In: DEULAUF, S. N.; BLUME, L. E. (Ed.). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. 2. ed. 2008.
MARSHALL, A. [1885]. The present position of Economics. In: PIGOU, A. G.; KELLEY, A. M. (Ed). Memorials of Alfred Marshall. New York, 1966.
MARSHALL, A. [1887]. The old generation of economists and the new. In: PIGOU, A. G.; KELLEY, A. M. (Ed). Memorials of Alfred Marshall. New York, 1966.
MATTOS, L. V. Transformando ‘verdades abstratas’ em ‘verdades concretas’: uma análise sobre a metodologia econômica de J. S. Mill. Estudos Econômicos, v. 34, n. 1, 2004.
MILL, J. S. [1844]. On the definition of political economy and the method of philosophical investigation in that science. In: CW IV. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967.
MOORE, G. T. E. Cliffe Leslie and the English Methodenstreit. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, v. 17, issue 1, 1995.
MOORE, G. Bagehot as an applied economist. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, v. 18, issue 2, 1996.
PEART, S. Theory, application and the canon: the case of Mill and Jevons. In: FORGET, Evelyn L.; PEART, Sandra (Ed.). Reflections on the classical canon in economics: essays in honor of Samuel Hollander. London: Routledge, 2001.
PERSKY, J. Retrospectives: the ethology of homo economicus. Journal of Economic Perspectives, v. 9, n. 2, 1995.
ROBERTSON, R. M. Jevons and his precursors. Econometrica, v. 19, n. 3, 1951. Available at: http:www.jstor.org/stable/1906812. Accessed: Jun. 10, 2016, 19:26:47.
SCHABAS, M. A world ruled by number: William Stanley Jevons and the rise of mathematical economics. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990.
SHOVE, G. F. The place of Marshall’s principles in the development of economic theory. The Economic Journal, v. 52, n. 208, p. 294-329, 1942.
TRIBE, K. Historical schools of economics: German and English. (Keele Economic Research Paper (KERP 2002/2). Download: www.keele.ac.uk/depts/ec/web/wpapers/kerp0202.pdf.
ZOUBOULAKIS, M. Walter Bagehot on economic methodology: evolutionism and realisticness. Journal of Economic Methodology, v. 6, n. 1, 1999.
ZOUBOULAKIS, M. Contesting the autonomy of political economy: the early positivist criticism of economic knowledge. European Journal of Economic Thought, v. 15, n. 1, 2008.
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