A ontologia social organicista pós-keynesiana: ruptura com o neoclássismo?

Resumo

Recent works published by post-Keynesian authors laid claim that the radical
rupture with the orthodoxy promoted by Keynes should be understood as relying
on an ontological switch. Such a rupture presupposed his move from the atomic
ontology underlying neoclassicism to an organic ontology. On this account the
neoclassical orthodoxy suppresses the human agency under the notion of system
equilibrium and, as a consequence, abolishes the historical character of the social
world. On the contrary, the organic ontology finally adopted by Keynes restores the
freedom to human conduct, so that it is inconceivable to think of the economic
phenomena as constituting a self-adjusting system. While agreeing that the teleological
nature of human conduct prevents the homogeneous reproduction of the human world,
as suggested by the atomic ontology of the neoclassical thought, this paper tries to
show that the organic ontology put forward by those post-Keynesian authors also
involves an unacceptable homogenization. Homogenization that results from the
post-Keynesian naturalization of the social world constituted by capital.