Polityczność mainstreamowej ekonomii

• Authors: Janusz Golinowski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article aims to confront the politicality of social order with the perspective of epistemological hegemony of mainstream economy. More and more often, economists emphasize the fact that economy, perceived as a scientific discipline, is not able to answer the question of the causation of observed phenomena. The The article aims to confront the politicality of social order with the perspective of epistemological hegemony of mainstream economy. More and more often, economists emphasize the fact that economy, perceived as a scientific discipline, is not able to answer the question of the causation of observed phenomena. TheThe article aims to confront the politicality of social order with the perspective of epistemological hegemony of mainstream economy. More and more often, economists emphasize the fact that economy, perceived as a scientific discipline, is not able to answer the question of the causation of observed phenomena. The methodology of economic research is oriented towards providing an answer about the effects of varied actions; that becomes the background for polemical discussions concerning the cause of the occurrence of aforementioned actions. However, as a scientific discipline, economy seems to be in trouble because the economists have been seduced by the vision of ideal, non-conflicting market system. Actual crisis relates not only to the financial sphere and production but also to social, political and ideological (moral) sphere. This crisis is systemic – it refers not only to capitalism and economic management but to their deviation in the form of neoliberalism that turns out as speculative ground of explanation for mainstream economy. Recent decades may be perceived as the time of strengthening the paradigm, where the key role is being played by various kinds of balance theory, according to which the economy management should automatically aim at high increase. Aforementioned project was not only the package of statutory solutions but “generalized normativity” and “global rationality” that tends to structure and organize the actions performed by governors, as well as the governed, in accordance with principles of competitiveness, effectiveness and usefulness.

Keywords

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mainstream economy,; ideas of rationality and balance, neoliberalism,; theory of rational choice,; epistemological hegemony

• Publisher: Instytut Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studia Politologiczne
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 37
• Pages: 146-173

Contributors

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Janusz Golinowski