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  1. On Error: Undisciplined Thoughts on One of the Causes of Intellectual Path Dependency.Altug Yalcintas - 2011 - Ankara University SBF Review 66 (2):215-233.
    Is there not any place in the history of ideas for the imperfect character of human doings (i.e. capability of error) that is repeated for so long until we lately start to think that it had long been wrong? The answer is: In the conventional histories of ideas there is almost none. The importance of the phenomenon,however, is immense. Intellectual history is full of errors. Scholarly errors are among the factors that generate intellectual pathways in which consequences of historical small (...)
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  • A Notion Evolving: From 'Institutional Path Dependence' to 'Intellectual Path Dependence.Altug Yalcintas - 2012 - Economics Bulletin 32 (2):1092-1098.
    How do ideas evolve? Can one speak of scientific progress when there is more than one pathway of intellectual evolution in which different ideas emerge and flow in different directions? Is the history of economic analysis a compilation of a number of intellectual pathways? This essay argues that it is possible to understand the course of history as a number of overlapping, divergent, and endlessly changing pathways. Such pathways operate in different fashions. They sometimes lead to more coherent and high (...)
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