方法論에서 유도된 制度學派 財政論의 特徵

• 영문명: On the Characteristics of the Theory of the Public Finance Based upon the Methodology of Institutionalism
• 발행기관: 한국재정학회(구 한국재정·공공경제학회)
• 저자명: 禹明東(Myoung-Dong Woo)
• 간행물 정보: 『재정논집』재정논집 제12권 제2호, 1~31쪽, 전체 31쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경제학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1997.12.31

영문 초록

It is said that methodology is essentially an under-labourer for economic science, being concerned to sweep away existing debris through elucidating a set of perspectives on the nature of the social world and on how to under-stand it. In this context, this essay, first of all, tries to make certain the methodological foundation of the origional institutionalism. Institutionalists do not take individualsas given just like the neoclassicists. They consider a complete and cumulative process in which individual preferences also evolve. So they use institutions rather than atomistic indivudials as the units or basis of analysis. They put great stress both on the processes of economic evolution and technological transformation, and on the manner in which action is moulded by circumstances. The inspirational scientific paradigm for the original institutionalism is biology, in contrast to the neoclassical which draws heavily upon physics. The second purpose of this article is to ascertain the characteristics of the theory of the Public finance based upon the methodology of the origional institutionalism. Public finance is a highly quantitative subjective and it could hardly dispense with numbers. But in the institutionalist’s opinion, it could profit by more penetrating study of its ethical and philosophical and legal implications. In the field of Public finance as elsewhere their attitude is strictly pragmatic. If a goal appeared to them as one worth pursuing in public interest and if the only way it could be accomplished or accomplished well was through government-then the extension of government had their support. They demolish the ‘value-free’ and ‘objective’ basis for the neoclassical concept of neutrality and expose it as a rationalization for the status quo distribution of wealth and economic power. They substitute a collectively determined Public good, or the promotion of the commonwealth as the standard to judge the economic effects of taxation. They did very little work in Public finance but their influence there as elsewhere has been profound.

목차

Ⅰ. 問題의 提起

Ⅱ. 制度學派의 方法論(認識論)

Ⅲ. 制度學派 財政論의 特徵

Ⅳ. 맺음말

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