Uma Análise Crítica da Função de Produção Neoclássica - O processo de produção na indústria e na agricultura

Paradoxalmente, a satisfação dos economistas com a linguagem meramente simbólica nunca foi tão patente como no caso da função de produção. Em contraste, tal linguagem foi freqüentemente contestada no caso da função-utilidade e a existência desta função já foi excessiva e minuciosamente discutida. Provavelmente, esta assimetria não existe. sem razão. Os economistas matemáticos dirigiram seus maiores esforços no sentido de defender a função-utilidade, na medida que passaram a sofrer críticas contundentes daqueles que se opunham ao uso do instrumental matemático na Economia, sob alegação de que o comportamento humano não pode ser analisado através de leis matematicamente rígidas. Conquanto seja discutível a validade desta explicação, o fato é que o conceito de função de produção tem sido tratado de uma forma bastante insatisfatória

Adam Smith’s Green Thumb and Malthus’ Three Horsemen: Cautionary tales from classical political economy

This essay identifies a contradiction between the flourishing interest in the environmental economics of the classical period and a lack of critical parsing of the works of its leading representatives. Its focus is the work of Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus. It offers a critical analysis of their contribution to environmental thought and surveys the work of their contemporary devotees. It scrutinizes Smith's contribution to what Karl Polanyi termed the "economistic fallacy," as well as his defenses of class hierarchy, the "growth imperative" and consumerism. It subjects to critical appraisal Malthus's enthusiasm for private property and the market system, and his opposition to market regulation. While Malthus's principal attraction to ecological economists lies in his having allegedly broadened the scope of economics, and in his narrative of scarcity, this article shows that he, in fact, narrowed the scope of the discipline and conceptualized scarcity in a reified and pseudo-scientific way

Accounting: A General Commentary on an Empirical Science

Many researchers have questioned the view of accounting as a science. Some maintain that it is a service activity rather than a science, yet others entertain the view that it is an art or merely a technology. While it is true that accounting provides a service and is a technology (a methodology for recording and reporting), that fact does not prevent accounting from being a science. Based upon the structure and knowledge base of the discipline, this paper presents the case for accounting as an empirical science

Théorie économique et économie politique agrairet

Georgescu-Roegen Nicholas. Théorie économique et économie politique agraire. In: Économie rurale. N°71, 1967. L'Europe et ses échanges agricoles. pp. 51-76

De la science économique à la bioéconomie

À Henri Guitton,En hommage au savantet à l’homme. I. Introduction Le problème des relations de l’homme avec l’environnement ne peut être réduit à celui de savoir ce que devra être le prix de l’essence demain ou combien la France et les États-Unis, par exemple, devront importer de pétrole en l’an 2000. Ce problème n’est pas économique, dans ce sens étroit. Sa nature est bioéconomique, car il concerne le mode de vie particulier de l’humanité en tant qu’espèce biologique. Les choses vues dans ce..