OUT OF THE COFFEE HOUSE OR HOW POLITICAL ECONOMY PRETENDED TO BE A SCIENCE FROM MONTCHRÉTIEN TO STEUART

IF 0.3 4区哲学 Q4 ETHICS

Social Philosophy & Policy Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1017/S0265052520000023

Christopher J. Berry

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Abstract

Abstract The essay investigates the proposition that economic questions are a fit subject for science. This investigation will involve a selective examination of seventeenth-century writings before looking at again selective Enlightenment texts. The essay is deliberately wide ranging, but it aims to pick out the emergence or crystallization of political economy by noting how theorists sought to establish it as a subject matter and in the process develop ways of studying it that aimed to uncover regularities and exhibit generality, systematicity, and precision. Together these supported its pretensions or claims to be a science that would in a Baconian manner be useful and free of the perceived shackles of a moralistic classical disparagement of economic activity.

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或者从montchrÉtien到斯图尔特，政治经济学如何伪装成一门科学

摘要本文考察了“经济问题是适合科学研究的课题”这一命题。这次调查将包括对17世纪作品的选择性检查，然后再一次选择性地研究启蒙运动的文本。这篇文章故意涉及面很广，但它的目的是通过注意理论家如何试图将政治经济学建立为一个主题，并在这个过程中发展出旨在揭示规律、展示普遍性、系统性和精确性的研究方法，来挑选出政治经济学的出现或结晶。总之，这些都支持了它的自命或主张，即它是一门科学，将以培根式的方式发挥作用，并摆脱对经济活动的道德主义古典贬低的束缚。

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期刊介绍： Social Philosophy and Policy is an interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on the philosophical underpinnings of enduring social policy debates. The issues are thematic in format, examining a specific area of concern with contributions from scholars in different disciplines, especially philosophy, economics, political science and law. While not primarily a journal of policy prescriptions, some articles in each issue will typically connect theory with practice. The 2006 issues are "Justice and Global Politics" and "Taxation, Economic Prosperity, and Distributive Justice". The 2007 issues will be "Liberalism: Old and New" and "Ancient Greek Political Theory".