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| Method: a method is a procedure agreed on by participants of a discussion or research project. In the case of violations of a method, the comparability of the results is in particular questioned, since these no longer come from a set with uniformly defined properties of the elements._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Friedrich A. von Hayek on Method - Dictionary of Arguments
Kurz I 77 Method/Hayek/SraffaVsHayek/Kurz: (…) in his 1932 review of Hayek’s Prices and Production (1931)(1) (…) Sraffa highlights the many contradictions, existing within the Hayekian theoretical framework, between the asserted object under investigation and the peculiar point of view chosen by Hayek. We have stressed the word ‘asserted’ because Sraffa claims that Hayek progressively shifted his analytical focus in the course of his book from the accumulation of capital in a monetary economy, the asserted object, to the statement that only a constant money policy does not distort the voluntary decisions of agents. It is true that Sraffa’s review emphasizes Hayek’s logical blunders, though Sraffa was of the opinion that the basic flaws of Hayek’s theory originate with its ‘subjective’ method. >Subjectivism. (A possible explanation of Sraffa’s chosen style of exposition is that Sraffa was aware of the risk of annoying his readers with an explicit methodological discussion: see Signorino 2001a(2) in this regard.) Nonetheless, as already noted by Lawlor and Horn (1992(3): 23–4) Sraffa was well aware that Prices and Production contains both methodological prescription and positive analysis and, accordingly, he put under fire both Hayek’s chosen framework and Hayek’s use of his own framework. Cf. >Method/Sraffa. 1. Hayek, F. A. (1931,1932) Prices and Production and other works. London: Routledge. 2. Signorino, R. (2000a) ‘The Italian debate on Marshallian (and Paretian) economics and the intellectual roots of Piero Sraffa’s “Sulle relazioni fra costo e quantita prodotta”: a note’, History of Economic Ideas 8: 143–57. 3. Lawlor, M. S. and Horn, B. (1992) ‘Notes on the Sraffa–Hayek exchange’, Review of Political Economy 4: 317–40, reprinted in H. D. Kurz and N. Salvadori (eds) The Legacy of Piero Sraffa, 2 Vols, 2003, Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar. Salvadori, Neri and Signorino, Rodolfo. 2015. „Piero Sraffa: economic reality, the economist and economic theory. An interpretation.“ In: Kurz, Heinz; Salvadori, Neri 2015. Revisiting Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics). London, UK: Routledge._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Hayek I Friedrich A. Hayek The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2) Chicago 2007 Kurz I Heinz D. Kurz Neri Salvadori Revisiting Classical Economics: Studies in Long-Period Analysis (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics). Routledge. London 2015 |
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