The Quarterly Journal Of Economics e o Institucionalismo: uma análise das publicações de 1886 a 2023

Eduarda Magrinelli Susin; Tiago Dextré da Silva; Solange Regina Marin; Liana Bohn

doi:10.5007/2175-8085.2024.e101316

Authors

Eduarda Magrinelli Susin Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Tiago Dextré da Silva Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097
Solange Regina Marin Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1427-2029
Liana Bohn Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3443-5048

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8085.2024.e101316

Keywords:

Institutionalism, Neoclassicism, Heterodoxy, Orthodoxy, Mainstream

Abstract

The study analyzes the articles by Thorstein Veblen and Wesley C. Mitchell, main names in institutionalism, and other texts that mention the school of thought, within The Quarterly Journal Of Economics, with the aim of highlighting the themes covered in the articles and identifying whether the discussions initiated by the authors were perpetuated, modified or disappeared over the decades. The hypothesis is that there was an institutionalist erasure linked to the historical intellectual dispute between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, with hegemony of the neoclassical method, representative in the orthodox and mainstream circles. The research method was mapping of the journal's articles, for quantitative and qualitative analysis. The text presents: (i) the articles found and the historical moments of institutionalism, (ii) analysis of the articles, the institutional discussion in relation to neoclassical economics and the clash between heterodoxy and orthodoxy and mainstream and (iii) the final considerations. In this, it is concluded that the newspaper failed to include all aspects of economic theory, which seems to be an extension of the history of dominant economic thought itself.

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