JAMES BUCHANAN & MAINLINE ECONOMICS: A Note by Ihering Guedes Alcoforado
Nesta nota chamo atenção para a orientação reativa do programa de James James Buchanan e da Escola de Virginia a publicação do livro de Paulo Samuelson e a sua evidenciação de forma sistemática e didática dos deslocamento metodológico, analitico e político do campo econômico e ressalto que tal reação constitui o embrião da dita “mainline economics” anunciada por Boulding (1971).
O pronto de partida e o paragrafo programático abaixo:
“The real purpose of the program was clear from the start to anyone who understands the indictment of the Samuelsonian revolution in economics that followed the publication of both his Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947) and Economics (1948). Samuelson embodied a complete shift in economic science at a methodological, analytical, and policy level. Buchanan (and Nutter) were the first among the then younger generation to resist it from within the neoclassical tradition of price theory. They would be followed in the ensuing decades by what became known as New Institutional Economics and would include future Nobel Prize winners such as Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Vernon Smith and Elinor Ostrom. Those eminent scholars constitute what has been dubbed mainline economics, a term inspired by Kenneth Boulding (1971), to discuss the long intellectual reach of Adam Smith (see Boettke 2012; Boettke et al. 2016; Mitchell and Boettke 2016).”[KROENCKE & BOETKE, 2020]
O objetivo é reconstruir o programa da Escola de Virginia de forma a evidenciar que a referida reação constitui o núcleo seminal não só da Escola da Escolha Publca, mas também da economia dos direitos de propriedade e da análise econômica do direito:
There came to be an increasing awareness of the importance of the institutional setting and of institutional constraints for the operation of an economy. Property-rights economics, law and economics, public choice — these closely related but distinct subdisciplines emerged, each of which is derivative of political economy, broadly defned, and each of which also fnds some of its origins in the work of scholars then associated with the Virginia School.(BUCHANAN, 1986–2001;42] [BOETTKE & CANDELA, 2020]
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