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A Heterodox Look to the Old and New Institutional School

Year 2021, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 404 - 417, 17.05.2021
https://doi.org/10.25295/fsecon.891169

Abstract

In the history of economic thought, many schools have existed, and these schools exhibited different characteristics from each other as methodological. Some schools have argued that economics will be the basis of science, and that there are the general laws and rules that will be valid in all conditions regardless of place and time like in physical science, and these schools have placed mathematics as the basis of their analysis and made a goal. These schools have been evaluated within the orthodox economic approach. Some schools argued economics is a social science, and the problems encountered have a social characteristic, so it cannot be considered independent from society. From this point of view, they argued that no general rules that would be valid in every condition, and time. They also argued that mathematics can be considered as a tool rather than a goal in economics. Schools that have this mentality are considered as heterodox economic approaches. Institutional economics is one of the schools that first come to mind, when it is called heterodox theory. In the study, discussions will be made about whether institutional economics should be evaluated within a heterodox or an orthodox economic trend. Institutional economics plays an important role in the development of economic thought. Institutional economics emphasize the importance of institutions in the economic system as an alternative to the analysis of Neoclassical economics based on rational human, equilibrium, deductive and abstraction. In the study, while the idea of evaluating the New institutionalists within heterodox economics is approached with suspicion, it is generally evaluated that Old Institutional economics is within the scope of heterodox economics due to their opposition to Neoclassical economics doctrine.

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Eski ve Yeni Kurumsal Ekole Heterodoks Bir Bakış

Year 2021, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 404 - 417, 17.05.2021
https://doi.org/10.25295/fsecon.891169

Abstract

İktisadi düşünce tarihi içerisinde birçok ekol varlık göstermiş ve metodolojik olarak birbirlerinden farklı özellikler sergilemişlerdir. Bazı ekoller, fen bilimlerinde olduğu gibi yer ve zaman koşulu gözetmeden her şartta geçerli olacak genel geçer kanunların ve kuralların ekonominin bilimin temeli olacağını ileri sürmüşler ve matematiği de analizlerinin temeline yerleştirerek amaç haline getirmişlerdir. Bu ekoller ortodoks iktisat akımı bünyesinde değerlendirilmişlerdir. Bazı ekoller ise, ekonominin sosyal bir bilim olduğunu, karşılaşılan sorunların toplumsal karakter taşıdığını dolayısıyla toplumdan bağımsız düşünülemeyeceğini savunmuştur. Buradan hareketle her şartta ve her zaman diliminde geçerli olacak bir genel geçer kuralların kabul edilemeyeceğini ve matematiğin ekonomi biliminde bir amaç olmaktan ziyade bir araç olarak değerlendirilebileceğini savunmuşlardır. Bu düşünce yapısına sahip ekoller ise heterodoks iktisat akımları olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Heterodoks teori denildiğinde akla ilk gelen ekollerden biri kurumsal iktisattır. Çalışmada kurumsal iktisadın heterodoks mu yoksa ortodoks iktisat akımı içerisinde mi değerlendirilmesi gerektiğine yönelik tartışmalar yürütülecektir. Kurumsal iktisat, iktisadi düşüncenin gelişiminde önemli bir rol oynamaktadır. Kurumsal iktisat, neoklasik iktisadın rasyonel insan, denge, tümdengelim ve soyutlamalara dayalı analizine alternatif olarak iktisadi sistemde kurumların önemine vurgu yapmıştır. Çalışmada Yeni Kurumsalcıların heterodoks iktisat bünyesinde değerlendirilmesi düşüncesine şüphe ile yaklaşılırken, genel olarak Eski Kurumsal iktisadın neoklasik iktisat öğretisine karşı çıkmalarının etkisiyle heterodoks iktisat akımı kapsamında olduğu değerlendirilmiştir.

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  • Buğra, A. (2003). İktisatçılar ve İnsanlar. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.
  • Bush, P. D. (1983). An exploration of the structural characteristics of a Veblen-Ayres-Foster defined institutional domain. Journal of Economic Issues, 17(1), 35-66.
  • Carden, A. (2007). Christian ethics, formal institutions, and economic growth. American Review of Political Economy, 5(1), 34-53.
  • Coase, R. (1998). The new institutional economics. The American Economic Review, 88(2), 72-74.
  • Commons, J. R. (1931). Institutional economics. American Economic Review, 21, 648-657.
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  • Polanyi, K. (1996). The Great Transformation, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, Beacon Press, Boston.
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  • Powell, W. W. and Dimaggio, P. J. (1991). The Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Richter, R. (2005). The new institutional economics: its start, its meaning, its prospects. European Business Organization Law Review, 6, 161-200.
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  • Veblen, T. B. (1898). Why is economics not an evolutionary science?. The Quarterly Journal of Economics , 12(4), 373-397.
  • Wrenn, M. (2007). What is heterodox economics? conversations with historians of economic thought. Forum for Social Economics, 36(2), 97-108. doi: 10.1007/ s12143-007-9002-5
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Ecem Turgut 0000-0003-2385-1580

Yeliz Sarıöz Gökten 0000-0002-6900-9017

Okyay Uçan 0000-0001-5221-4682

Publication Date May 17, 2021
Published in Issue Year 2021 Volume: 5 Issue: 2

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APA Turgut, E., Sarıöz Gökten, Y., & Uçan, O. (2021). Eski ve Yeni Kurumsal Ekole Heterodoks Bir Bakış. Fiscaoeconomia, 5(2), 404-417. https://doi.org/10.25295/fsecon.891169

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