Abstract

CONGOTE-OCHOA, Bernardo. Could the assumptions of quantum mechanics should contribute to understand certain systemic inequalities of capitalism? The Piketty s affair. Entramado [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp.28-43. ISSN 1900-3803.  https://doi.org/10.18041/1900-3803/entramado.1.6065.

The article seeks to test the hypothesis that certain inequalities of economic growth could be understood beyond the characteristics of the capitalist system by itself. The article first exposes some aspects of Newtonian deterministic ways of thinking and also of quantum mechanics. Then, he uses quantum tools proposed, among others, by Hawking and Other (2010), Morin (1990), Prigogine (1990, 1993, 1997), and Russell (1986), proving their usefulness in understanding exposed capitalist inequalities, among others, by Marx and Engels (2000), Marx (1970) and Keynes (1970). And, in the end, he tries to distort some proposals of Piketty (2014) in relation to his criticism of unequal growth. The methodology of the article is descriptive comparative. By way of finding, the article proposes that the absence of quantum tools in the analyzes and therapies applied to solve increasingly complex problems, would explain some growing discredit of contemporary economists in the global environment.

JEL CLASSIFICATION A12

Keywords : Economics; growth; inequality; learning-understanding; quantum mechanics; research; methodology.

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