Apariencia y realidad de la economía neoclásica y el Hipias de Platón
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Universidad Industrial de Santander
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El presente artículo, siguiendo el planteamiento de Paul Krugman, analiza los fallos de la profesión económica que llevaron al desplome en esa materia, en el 2008, en términos de ciertas actitudes frente al conocimiento exhibidas por los sofistas de los diálogos platónicos y en particular por Hipias en el Hipias mayor. Se abordan la sugerencia de Krugman de que los economistas confundieron lo bello con lo verdadero; la relación entre las burbujas económicas y las burbujas cognitivas; el proceder de sofistas y economistas cuando se enfrentan a la reductio ad absurdum; y la confusión entre el éxito y el indicador del éxito. Finalmente, se hacen algunas sugerencias para la disciplina económica a partir de la ironía socrática.
The text, following Paul Krugman’s analysis, analizes the failures of the economic profession that led to the crisis of 2008 in terms of certain sophistic attitudes towards knowledge that are exemplified in Plato’s dialogues, specially Hippias Major. Krugman’s suggestion that economists confuse the beautiful with the true is analyzed, as well as the relationship between economic and cognitive bubbles, the procedure of both sophists and economists when faced with a reduction ad abusrdum, and the confusion between success and indicators of success. Finally, some suggestions for the economic profession are made in terms of socratic irony.
The text, following Paul Krugman’s analysis, analizes the failures of the economic profession that led to the crisis of 2008 in terms of certain sophistic attitudes towards knowledge that are exemplified in Plato’s dialogues, specially Hippias Major. Krugman’s suggestion that economists confuse the beautiful with the true is analyzed, as well as the relationship between economic and cognitive bubbles, the procedure of both sophists and economists when faced with a reduction ad abusrdum, and the confusion between success and indicators of success. Finally, some suggestions for the economic profession are made in terms of socratic irony.
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Economía neoclásica, Platón, sofistas, argumentación, ironía, Neoclassical economics, Plato, sophists, argumentation, irony