Equilíbrio, coordenação e conhecimento: um estudo sobre a questão monetária em Hayek

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, André Roncaglia de
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9304
• topic: Hayek; Ciclos Econômicos; Moeda; Equilíbrio; Conhecimento; Coordenação; Hayek, Friedrich August von -- 1899-1992 -- Critica e interpretacao; Questao monetaria; Ciclos economicos; Hayek; Trade Cycles; Money; Equilibrium; Knowledge; Coordination; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA

This study aims at stressing the connection between Hayek s trade cycle theory and his later perception of the problem of knowledge. Furthermore, an attempt is made to show how this discovery may clarify the author s comprehension of the role of money in the economic system. The period under analysis ranges from the late 1920s to the end of the following decade. It is argued that the tensions at work in Hayek s monetary theory led his attention towards the criticism of the concepts of equilibrium and perfect knowledge. The organization of the monetary system, based on credit, generates a distortion in the price system, barring the compatibility between the actions of producers and consumers. Such conflict emerges due to the existence of an informational deficit which stems from the very functioning of the monetary system, which culminates in the occurrence of the trade cycle. In the effort to analyze this phenomenon, Hayek exposed the problems money poses to the attainment of the equilibrium for the economic system. Money and equilibrium would only be compatible with each other under extremely restrictive conditions. The main condition referred to a heroic supposition about the knowledge of individuals: for money to be neutral that is, in order not to disturb the equilibrium -, individuals should be able to anticipate correctly all future movements of the prices of the economy. Finally, Hayek had the contribution of his peers criticism, whose consideration came to allow his visualization of the problem of knowledge in the society