"İktisat Kuramı Ve İktisat Öğretimi" Kara’ya Cevap

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1988

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Sayan , Serdar

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A part of the first issue of volume 14 (1987) of METU Studies in Development is devoted to the papers discussing the problems of the economics education in Turkey. Among the four papers appeared in that issue were ours and Mr.Kara's, the latter putting emphasis on the methodological problems supposedly involved in the neo-classical analysis. In our reply to Mr. Kara's paper, first we point to some of the problematic aspects of the arguments that Mr. Kara presents concerning the methodological issues in neo-classical analysis. In defense of the Popperian approach to the methodology of science whose basic principles applied to economic analysis by Milton Friedman, we argue that direct testing of the assumptions used in conjunction with theories is not necessary. We try to show, therefore, that Mr. Kara's attack on unrealisticness of assumptions used in analysis, is not sound. Indeed, his criticism as formulated in his paper can easily be refuted even without reference to Friedman's understanding of methodology. In our criticism of Mr.Kara's arguments, we take the assumption of 'rational decision units' as an example of axioms of neo-classical analysis. We also deal with Mr.Kara's suggestions concerning economics education in Turkey, most of which seem hard to implement in the present circumstances (although they are 'desirable' taken by themselves). We then offer our own suggestions which we took up in the issue of METU Studies in Development referred to above.

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