Founding Economic Concepts

Journal title STORIA DEL PENSIERO ECONOMICO
Author/s Matthias Klaes
Publishing Year 2006 Issue 2006/1 Language Italian
Pages 17 P. File size 98 KB
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Conceptual precision is often regarded as a scholarly virtue by economists. This paper explores the scope and promise of definitionalism in economics by focusing on concepts that act as founding concepts in economic debate. The semantic properties of these founding concepts are investigated on the basis of a revised Fregean account of meaning, which reinterprets Fregean sense as a social object that determines meaning reflexively in an ethnographically grounded and non-determinist fashion. The resulting ‘finitist’ account of economic concepts casts doubt on the definitionalist project. What matters for founding concepts is less that they are well-defined, but that differences over their meaning do not prompt controversy.

Matthias Klaes, Founding Economic Concepts in "STORIA DEL PENSIERO ECONOMICO" 1/2006, pp , DOI: