İktisat ve Sosyal Teoride ''Görünmez El'' Eğretilmesi

Yazıda, iktisat ve sosyal teorinin önemli hipotezlerinden birisi olan "Görünmez El" eğretilemesinin, sosyal düzenin ortaya çıkışını açıklamak için kullanışlı bir nedensel hipotez olabilmesinin, içeriğinin ancak nedensel bir mekanizma ortaya konarak doldurulması ile mümkün olabileceği, aksi halde yaklaşımın, içi boş bir metafizik hipotez durumuna indirgenebileceği savunulmaktadır. Yazıda ayrıca, böyle bir içerik doldurmasının da, hem "mekanizmacı" analojilerden hem de işlevselciliğe yaslanan bir "Panglosscu" evrim anlayışından uzak durması yoluyla mümkün olacağı ve dengesizliklere, etkinsizliklere ve istikrarsızlıklara olanak veren bir "evrimci el" anlayışının benimsenmesinin analizin genelliği ve gerçekçiliği bakımından daha yararlı olacağı gösterilmektedir.

The ''Invisible Hand'' in economics and social theory

This study will argue that the "invisible hand" metaphor, one of key hypothesises of economic and social theory, can be a helpful casual hypothesis in to explain the emergence of a social order only if it offers some causal mechanism. Otherwise, this might be reduced to empty, "Panglossian " metaphysics concerning merely optimal and desirable consequences, mostly unintentionally. The study maintains that such a functionalist and/or teleological understanding of the metaphor would restrict both its applicability and reality. Therefore, it is argued that adopting an "evolutionary hand" approach that allows for imbalances, inefficiencies and instabilities will be more helpful in respect of the generality and realisticity of the analysis.

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