Energy and Economic Myths
Energy and Economic Myths
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能源和经济神话
DOI：
10.2307/1056148
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发表时间：
1975
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
N. Georgescu
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作者：
N. Georgescu
珀西·布里奇曼 (Percy Bridgman) 的一句话颇有道理：经济行业是最机会主义的行业。事实上，经济学家的注意力不断从一个问题转移到另一个问题，而这些问题往往并不密切相关。例如，搜索1950年之前英语世界的所有经济期刊，你几乎找不到任何提及“经济发展”的内容。因此，奇怪的是，在过去的一百年里，经济学家仍然顽固地坚持一种特定的观念，即主导新古典主义创始人取向的机械论认识论。
There is an appreciable grain of truth in one of Percy Bridgman's remarks that the economic profession is the most opportunistic of all. Indeed, economists' attention has continually shifted from one problem to another, the problems often being not even closely related. Search all economic periodicals of the English-speaking world before 1950, for example, and you will hardly find any mention of "economic development." It is curious, therefore, that economists have over the last hundred years remained stubbornly attached to one particular idea, the mechanistic epistemology which dominated the orientation of the founders of the Neoclassical