On error: undisciplined thoughts on one of the causes of intellectual path dependency
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Keywords
Errors in the history of ideas; intellectual path dependence; intellectual pathologies; the Coase Theorem; historical small events;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
- B25 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School
- B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2012-04-17 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HME-2012-04-17 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2012-04-17 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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