La economía política como ciencia

Abstract

In a work published fifty years ago, as he called the attention upon the deficiency of the Historical School, the author pointed out as the best way for the solution of the problems of practical life a realistic economic theory, free of valuating judgments and provided with efficient conceptual tools. After half a century the trajectory of economics moved to the other extreme, non less dangerous, of the mathematical-statistical tendency of the "New Economics". Without discussing the obvious merits of the contributions made by Keynes`school or those of Schmoller, it is nevertheless necessary to point out -as Albrecht, Predöhl, Albert have done lately in opposition to Schneider and Tinbergen- that also the "New Economics" when practicing the "platonism of models", instead of getting us closer to the goal of a realistic economic theory, is giving us an "economic blindness with mathematical clarity".