A nova economia da informação e o programa de pesquisa científico neoclássico : uma abordagem lakatosiana
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2013-06-07
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Cunha, Rafael Alves da
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
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This work presents the contributions of Akerlof, Spence and Stiglitz, discussing how the elements provided allows a research programme to be defined, in the sense of Lakatos (1980). The research aims to demonstrate how the work of those authors were incompatible with the standard economic analysis, this late identified with those analysis pertaining to the Neoclassical research programme. In the first part, the Methodology of Research Programme is presented, relating it to the works of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. In the second part, a definition of the Neoclassical research programme is established, with the definition provided by Weintraub (1985) as a starting point. In the third part, the main works of Akerlof, Spence and Stiglitz were presented, identifying how they were incompatible with the definition of the Neoclassical research programme provided in the second part, and allows the definition of the New Information Economics research programme.
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Epistemology , Scientific Research Programme , Neoclassical Theory , Information Asymmetries , Economics of Information , Programa de pesquisa científica , Teoria Neoclássica , Assimetrias de informação , Economia da informação