The paradigm of complexity in economics: beyond laws and linear causality

Cinta de Moebio 61:80-94 (2018)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Resumen: El enfoque de máquinas nomológicas como esquema de funcionamiento de los modelos económicos supone la existencia de conjunciones constantes de eventos que tienen lugar en tanto se cumplan con determinadas cláusulasceteris paribus. Este enfoque supone causalidad del tipo lineal, una metodología del tipo macro-micro-macro, y un aislamiento respecto del entorno en el cual dicha máquina opera, lo cual lo hace congruente con el pensamiento neo-mecanicista. Consideramos que estos supuestos son cuestionables bajo el paradigma de la complejidad. En particular, dado que gran parte de los fenómenos económicos responden a una causalidad no lineal, es necesario tener en consideración interacciones que no se dan en un nivel ni micro ni macro sinomeso, y que no es necesario ni conveniente hacer un aislamiento con el entorno, sino que es posible contemplarlo utilizando modelos de simulación.: The nomological machines approach as a scheme of operation of economic models presupposes the existence of constant conjunctions of events that take place as long as certain ceteris paribus clauses are fulfilled. This approach involves linear causality, a macro-micro-macro methodology, and an isolated environment in which the machine operates, which makes it consistent with the neo-mechanistic approach. We believe that these assumptions are questionable under the paradigm of complexity. Given that a large part of economic phenomena responds to non-linear causality, it is necessary to consider interactions that do not occur at a micro or macro level but rather at a meso-level, and that it is neither necessary nor desirable to isolate from the environment, but it is possible to contemplate it using simulation models.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,907

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

From Circular Reasoning to Micro-Macro Reasoning in the Classroom?A. Hjorth - 2016 - Constructivist Foundations 12 (1):11-12.
Micro-Level Indeterminism and Macro-Level Determinism.Marcelo Sabatés - 2001 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 10:11-18.
The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics.Kurt Dopfer (ed.) - 2005 - Cambridge University Press.
Micro, macro, and mechanisms.Petri Ylikoski - 2012 - In Harold Kincaid (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science. Oxford University Press. pp. 21.
Business ethics: Micro and macro. [REVIEW]James Brummer - 1985 - Journal of Business Ethics 4 (2):81 - 91.
The Micro-Macro-Problem in Constructivism.A. Scholl - 2016 - Constructivist Foundations 12 (1):47-48.
Nonlinearity in the epidemiology of complex health and disease processes.P. Philippe & O. Mansi - 1998 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 19 (6):591-607.
Causality and determinism: Tension, or outright conflict?Carl Hoefer - 2004 - Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) 29 (2):99-115.

Analytics

Added to PP
2018-03-29

Downloads
15 (#971,048)

6 months
2 (#1,250,447)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Alfredo Garcia
Texas A&M University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references