ALFRED MARSHALL: ‘KANLI-CANLI’ İNSAN ANLAYIŞI

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 991 - 1006, 27.12.2018

Hüsnü Bilir

https://doi.org/10.30798/makuiibf.426727

Abstract

Neoklasik iktisadın kurucuları arasında değerlendirilen Alfred Marshall,
neoklasik iktisadın diğer önde gelen isimlerinin aksine, ‘rasyonel iktisadi
insan’ fikrine karşı çıkmıştır. Zira Marshall’a göre iktisat değişken, karmaşık
ve evrimsel bir yapıya sahiptir ve insanın hem toplumsal ve kültürel çevresini,
hem de duygularını, sezgilerini, arzularını ve alışkanlıklarını dikkate almayan
bu rasyonel iktisadi insan fikri, bu karmaşık dünyayı açıklama konusunda
yetersiz kalmaktadır. Marshall bu kavramın yerine, insanın toplumsal ve
tarihsel bağlamıyla bağlantısını ifade eden ‘kanlı-canlı insan’ fikrini önermiştir.
Bu çalışmanın amacı da, Marshall’ın ontolojik ve epistemolojik anlayışı doğrultusunda
bilimi ve ‘iktisat’ı nasıl ele aldığını incelemek ve bu doğrultuda ‘kanlı-canlı
insan’ anlayışının temelini gözler önüne sermektir. 

Keywords

Alfred Marshall, Bilim anlayışı, İktisat anlayışı, ‘Kanlı-canlı’ insan

ALFRED MARSHALL: THE CONCEPTION OF ‘A MAN OF FLESH AND BLOOD’

Abstract

Alfred Marshall objected the idea of ‘rational economic man’ contrary to
the other leading figures of neoclassical economics, despite he is evaluated as
a neoclassical economist. According to him economics was a changeable, complicated
and evolutionary discipline, and this idea which neglects human’s social and
cultural sphere, emotions, intuitions, desires and habits was inadequate to
explain this complicated sphere. Instead of this concept Marshall suggested the
idea of ‘a man of flesh and blood’ which reflects the relationships of human
with his/her social and historical context. And this paper aims to examine
Marshall’s conceptions of science and ’economics’ and to reveal the essential
of his conception of ‘a man of flesh and blood’.  

Keywords

Alfred Marshall, The conception of science, The conception of economics, ‘A man of flesh and blood’

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