Uma formalização da mão invisível

Resumo

In this paper, I intend to reconstruct the invisible hand notion created by Classical Political Economy and, in special, by Adam Smith, in order to circumscribe its significance, conceptually and formally. In the text, meanwhile, this concept do not designate the best coordination of agents plans, all of them endowed with perfect rationality, but the self-organization process inherent to the competition of capitals. After a section where this concept is discussed historically, I construct a time oriented model that requires, immediately, a formalization of capital mobility process which occurs in face of profit variations in the productive sectors. Then, the required formalization is done applying the so called replication dynamics that were constructed in the field of mathematic biology to represent the reproduction and competition process of certain animals' species.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2006

Instituição

Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Atuária

Fonte

Estudos Econômicos

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.1590/S0101-41612006000100002

Identificador

oai:revistas.usp.br:article/35864

Licença

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Palavras-chave

mão invisíveldinâmica de replicaçãoconcorrência de capitaisauto-organização mercantilinvisible handreplication dynamicscompetition of capitalsmarket self-organization