| Abstract: |
This article is the first of a three in a series that intends to investigate
the history of economic thought from a plural perspective, considering the
variety of approaches as the stronger feature in the knowledge of economic
phenomena. Here is presented a suggested methodology to study the born of
schools of thought, what we call the 'context of discovery' in economics. We
argue about the relations between the social reality, that is specific,
historically and geographically, and the theories and new approaches that
appear in these contexts. The methodology suggested ranges from the schools of
thought characterization, by the means of Kuhn and Lakatos categories, until
the treatment of anachronism, that is embedded in all intellectual
historiography work So, a interpretative model is designed, with the
motivation to use it in the next two essays, that are case studies, the first
about the German historical school and the second on the American
institutionalism. |