The economic science and the construction of a language

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Virgínia Maria Granate Costa e
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/ei.v0i3.6481

The dynamics of the economic science evolution it isfollowed by the development of the national accounts, as astructured language and, later on, by the first internationalsystems of national accounts. On this study we used themetaphors of the economic science to signalize the changeon its paradigms and the birth of national accounts. In fact,the mechanical metaphor creates a “gap” betweeneconomic science and national accounts but opens theopportunity for the organic metaphor – the one thatconducts the economic thought towards theinstitutionalism, develops the theories and quantificationbased on aggregates, and supports Keynes’s model – arevolution in the macro economics and in the economiclanguage, in the line of an economic science sustained byfacts and observations. Afterwards, Stone, the Nobel of 84,considering, as Keynes did, that the development ofeconomic science depends on the effective combinationbetween facts and theories, creates the 2nd internationalsystem generation of national accounts and supportsnational accounts as an universal language. Today, in a crisiscontext, more than ever, the market and its rules are inquestion, when considered as an auto regulation instrumenton the service of the mechanical economic image thatcloses the system on itself; the dynamics of evolutionstimulates the construction of a new economic languageand triggers the 5th international system generation ofnational accounts, skilled to give the proper answer for thenew demands of information. We conclude that nowadaysnational accounts characteristics - as accounting model andeconomic language for the analysis and governance –follow the construction of an evolution dynamics, leavingbehind the changing process of the paradigms in theeconomic domain. We are facing a new and different “gap”explained by the co - evolution process of economicscience and the language of the national accounts.