Apontamentos metodológicos e historiografia do pensamento econômico

Abstract

This dissertation has as its aim to retake the methodological discussions in the field of the history of economic thought, considering the potentialities of its approach in national perspective. In order to do so, we have divided our research into two sections. Firstly, departing from the constatation of the recent increase of interest in this field of research, we have sought to evince the structural questions that circumscribe the works of this area, so as to understand how these elements provide the mainstream of economic science with bigger questions. Crisis in science, debates of the philosophy of science and methodological pluralism are the main axes of our argumentation in favor of the resignification of the role ascribed to the history of economic thought. In the second part, getting into the controversies which fence in the historiography of economic thought, we describe the orthodox approach started by Schumpeter's work, emphasizing its limits, compromises und contradictions. We present the approach of the theoreticians of the International Diffusion of the Economic Ideas as a critical alternative, which is able to apprehend the history of economic thought in its national perspective. At the end, we will evaluate the major works that have systematized the brazilian economic thought in light of these attending debates in the historiography, trying to legitimate new subjects and themes marginalized by these traditional works.