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Investigación económica
Print version ISSN 0185-1667
Inv. Econ vol.59 n.230 Ciudad de México Oct./Dec. 1999
Artículos
Axiomática e interpretación en Gérard Debreu: el caso del mercado*
Axiomatic assertions and interpretation in Gérard Debreu: the case of the market
** Universidad de París I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Correo Electrónico: jpoincheval@mediakronik.fr.
Aunque la teoría neoclásica tiene como principal objetivo et estudio del mercado como lugar teórico de formación de precios y de coordinación de las acciones individuales, es interesante constatar que este se encuentra, como tal, prácticamente ausente del conjunto de escritos de Gérard Debreu. Este artículo se propone mostrar, por una parte, que esta ausencia se encuentra en estrecha relación con el status asignado por Debreu a las interpretaciones económicas de una teoría axiomatizada y, por la otra, que las raras apariciones del término mercado son bastante circunstanciales y se hacen, en general, con referencia a un agente ficticio, que se supone hace las veces del mercado en el modelo.
Although the neoclassical theory has as its main objective the study of the market as the theoretical place of the formation of prices and the coordination of individual activities, it is interesting to notice that it is almost absent, as such, in Gérard Debreu's writings. This article is meant to show, on the one hand, that this absence is tightly linked with the status given by Debreu to economic interpretations of an axiomatised theory and, on the other, that the rare mentions of the term market are quite circumstantial and are generally made in reference to a fictitious agent, meant to incarnate the market in the model.
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Recibido: Noviembre de 1998; Aprobado: Agosto de 1999
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