Reconsidering Crucial Concepts in Micro Principles

摘要

The core paradigm of modern microeconom- ics has now been around for a long time. A casual glance at the first edition of Alfred Marshall's(1890) Principles of Economics pro- duces a remarkable list of the core principles Taught today(e.g., supply and demand, equilib- rium, opportunity cost, efficiency, consumer Surplus, utility maximization, diminshing re- Turns, internal and external economies of scale, Monopoly power, and rent). Within the paradigm, Kuhnian "normal sci- Ence" progresses as follows (Thomas Kuhn, 1970 p.20): [T]he creative scientist can begin his re- search where [previous research] leaves off and thus concentrate on the subtlest and most esoteric aspects of the natural phenomena that concerns his group. ... they will appear in brief articles addressed only to professional colleagues... .