A crítica keynesiana ao programa de pesquisa científico neoclássico

• Ano de defesa: 2025
• Autor(a) principal: Stege, Dreyfuss Raphael
• Orientador(a): Herscovici, Alain Pierre Claude Henri
• Banca de defesa: Grassi, Robson Antonio , Cerqueira, Hugo Eduardo Araújo da Gama , Fucidji, José Ricardo , Simiqueli, Roberto Resende
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; Doutorado em Economia
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia
• Departamento: Centro de Ciências Jurídicas e Econômicas
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Economia - Metodologia; História econômica; Teoria do conhecimento; Escola neoclássica de economia; Economia keynesiana
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/20810

This thesis develops an epistemological analysis of mainstream economic theory, represented by the Neoclassical Scientific Research Program (SRP), through the lens of Imre Lakatos’s methodology. Its central objective is to assess whether the Keynesian critique constitutes an incremental or a fundamental rupture in relation to this program. The study first examines different approaches within the philosophy of science — from Popperian falsificationism to Kuhn’s contributions — to justify the use of Lakatos’s framework. It then characterizes the neoclassical SRP, identifying its hard core, its auxiliary hypotheses, and the flexibilization mechanisms employed to preserve its theoretical coherence. Finally, it analyzes key contributions from the Keynesian and post-Keynesian traditions, with particular emphasis on ontological uncertainty, the historicity of expectations, and the incompatibility of the ergodicity assumption with real-world economies. The investigation concludes that the (post-)Keynesian approach constitutes a fundamental epistemological rupture: it rejects the core assumptions of the neoclassical hard core, exposes the degenerative character of the SRP, and advances an alternative paradigm grounded in radical uncertainty, historical causality, institutions, and the interdependence of economic agents.