An Analysis on Neoclassical and Schumpeterian Approaches: Competition and Human Behavior

Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 599 - 612, 31.05.2023

İtır İmer , Derya Güler Aydın , Yıldız Sağlam Çeliköz

https://doi.org/10.29023/alanyaakademik.999285

Abstract

The aim of this study is to scrutinize the close relationship between the type of competition and the conceptualization of human behavior by taking into consideration neoclassical and Schumpeterian competition approaches. To this end, the linkages between static competition and methodological individualism, and dynamic competition and institutional individualism are discussed. While methodological individualism is embraced by the neoclassical approach in parallel to the static analysis of perfect competition, Schumpeter analyzes human behavior within the framework of institutional individualism, and embraces dynamic competition. This study shows that perfect competition of the neoclassical approach does not take into consideration the very crucial characteristics of capitalism, and its conceptualization of human behavior falls short of explaining real world phenomena and cannot link social, historical and economic reality. Most importantly, the human being wih his/her real incentives and motives are absent from the analysis in the neoclassical approach. Since economic reality cannot be analyzed independent of society, history and social individual, Schumpeter's institutional individualism provides a richer analytical framework. To our knowledge, the relationship established in this study between competition and human behavior is a novel approach and contribution.

Keywords

Human Behavior, Methodological Individualism, Institutional Individualism, Static Competition, Dynamic Competition

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An Analysis on Neoclassical and Schumpeterian Approaches: Competition and Human Behavior

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Bu çalışmanın amacı, rekabetin türü ile insan davranışının kavramsallaştırılması arasındaki yakın ilişkiyi neoklasik ve Schumpeterci rekabet teorilerini dikkate alarak incelemektir. Bu amaçla, bir yandan statik rekabet ve metodolojik bireycilik, diğer yandan ise, dinamik rekabet ve kurumsal bireycilik arasındaki bağlantılar tartışılmaktadır. Tam rekabetin statik analizine paralel olarak, neoklasik yaklaşım, metodolojik bireyciliği benimserken, Schumpeter insan davranışını kurumsal bireycilik çerçevesinde inceler ve dinamik rekabeti benimser. Bu çalışma, neoklasik yaklaşımın tam rekabet analizinin, kapitalizmin çok önemli özelliklerini dikkate almadığını ve insan davranışını kavramsallaştırmasının gerçek dünya olaylarını açıklamakta yetersiz kaldığını ve sosyal, tarihsel ve iktisadi gerçekliği birbirine bağlayamadığını göstermektedir. En önemlisi, neoklasik yaklaşımda, gerçek eğilim ve güdüleri ile insan analizde yer almamaktadır. İktisadi gerçeklik toplumdan, tarihten ve sosyal bireyden bağımsız olarak analiz edilemeyeceği için Schumpeter'in kurumsal bireyciliği daha zengin bir analitik çerçeve sağlamaktadır. Bildiğimiz kadarıyla, bu çalışmada rekabet ve insan davranışı arasında kurulan bu ilişki yeni bir yaklaşım ve katkıdır.

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İnsan Davranışı, Metodolojik Bireycilik, Kurumsal Bireycilik, Statik Rekabet, Dinamik

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