PAIVA, Carlos Águedo Nagel

Kalecki : um antikeynesiano? - São Paulo : Nobel, jan./mar. 1996

This article aims to investigate the determinants of the limited diffusion and theoretical acceptance of Kalecki’s work. In my opinion, the roots of the resistance to this author comes from the unusual way he combines the theoretical, methodological and analytical elements in his work. More specifically, it’s necessary to notice that, despite the theoretical substratum of his work is keynesian, the pattern of investigation and exposition used by Kalecki is structuralist, and comes up against Keynes’ methodological individualism. This contradiction — the center of Keynes and Kalecki’s usually hard dialogue — also limits the dialogue with those two other schools our author considered scientific in Economies, the Marxism and the (neoclassical) Econometrics