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“The Recent Economist”: Between Scientific Relativism and the Recourse to Ethics
In society’s evolution, ideas are the essential ferments of any change. There are no implacable laws of history and the future is not written in the stars or, to the “delight” of (macro) contemporary supporters of quantitative approaches, in the cyber-economic models that became the sterile fashion of economics journals – where exactly ‘economics’ is the endangered scientific
Why “the Opportunity Cost” Can Never Be “Zero”…
I am writing these lines out of the need to correct certain errors that orthodox economics textbooks fuel, sometimes, with brave nonchalance. Such an error emerges even from the first “economics lesson”, namely the lesson on “the economic way of thinking”, which seeks to explain human action in the counterfactual terms of “the opportunity costs”. Put together, such
