稀缺的手段，竞争的目的:罗宾斯勋爵和背景经济学的基础

Q4 Social Sciences

Journal of Contextual Economics-Schmollers Jahrbuch Pub Date : 2016-03-01 DOI:10.3790/SCHM.136.1.59

Richard Sturn

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摘要本文分析了罗宾斯勋爵强调稀缺和选择的经济学定义(RDE)的作用，以及它对澄清背景经济学基础的有用性。本文讨论了RDE吸引人的原因以及其灵活性/开放性的一些战略利益，并简要分析了有关方法和认识论背景的一些批评，特别是经验主义、内省知识、母题和价值判断的地位。研究发现，RDE对与合同执行、偏好和技术的内生性相关的上下文相互依赖性施加了限制。继大卫休谟之后，稀缺性将被视为环境的偶然情境条件，而不是经济分析的先验起点。JEL代码:A10, B13, B41

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Scarce Means, Competing Ends: Lord Robbins and the Foundations of Contextual Economics

Abstract This paper analyses the role of Lord Robbins’ definition of economics (RDE) emphasizing scarcity and choice, as well as its usefulness for clarifying the foundations of contextual economics. The reasons for RDE’s appeal and some strategic benefits of its flexibility / openness are discussed, along with a brief analysis of some of the criticism which has been raised with respect to the methodological and epistemological background, notably the status of empirics, of introspective knowledge, of motifs and of value judgments. RDE is found to impose restrictions regarding contextual interdependences related to endogeneities of contract enforcement, of preferences, and of technologies. Following David Hume, scarcity moreover will be considered as a contingent contextual condition of the environment rather than an aprioristic starting point of economic analysis. JEL Codes: A10, B13, B41

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Journal of Contextual Economics-Schmollers Jahrbuch Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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