Political Economy
The Desire and Needs of Present and Future Generations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23156274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sylvana Tomaselli (0000-0002-9097-4137, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Pages | 292-314 |
| Publication date | 1995-10-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Inventing human science (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520200104.003.0010 |
| OpenAlex | W2484102834 |
| ISBN | 9780520200104 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
We are rich in knowledge of the history of political economy. However, this chapter asks: Have we the history of an invention? Have we the history of two inventions, of two epistemic watersheds? The chapter suggests that the notion of invention and the quest for founding fathers is a potentially hazardous intellectual activity. It favors the search for discontinuities and can lead to distortions about the context in which particular schools of thought emerged before being institutionalized as disciplines or becoming formalized discourses about certain topics, such as the economy or population. Neither in the case of political economy nor in that of demography is the notion of invention entirely fruitful.
Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Demography · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2013 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |