Articulo econom a

Values and Knowledge Teachers generally are increasingly challenged that their courses are not relevant, and teachers of economics are by no means excepted. They may even have come to fear in their hearts that the challenges are all too well deserved, however relevant in their own eyes their courses may have seemed to them as economists. To the din of student voices has now been added that ofthe so-called new, or radical, economists, though they be not new-nor radicals qua economists nor economists qua radicals
Los valores y Profesores de Conocimiento generalmente cada vez más son desafiados que sus cursos no son relevantes, y los profesores de economía en ningún caso son excluidos. Ellos aún pueden haber venido para temer en sus corazones que los desafíos demasiado bien son merecidostodos, sin embargo relevante en sus propios ojos sus cursos pueden haberles parecido como economistas. Al alboroto de voces de estudiante ahora ha sido añadido él del supuesto nuevo, o el radical, economistas, aunque ellos no ser nuevo - ni radicales en cuanto a economistas, ni economistas en cuanto a radicales
It is claimed that economists do not ask the right questions, that their teachings arebiased toward the market system and the status quo, and that they never reach conclusions.' In response it should be said that all of us, not particularly economists, should ask the questions; that economics as such is not biased toward any particular system of allocating resources; that the ideas of economists qua economists are often radical; and that any conclusions must depend upon values aswell as upon economics. Because values are inevitably involved, economists qua economists should no more be expected to reach unanimity than anyone else.
Es reclamado que los economistas no hacen las preguntas derechas, que sus enseñanzas son influidas hacia el sistema de mercado y el status quo, y que ellos nunca alcanzan conclusiones. ' En la respuesta se debería decir que todos nosotros, no enparticular los economistas, deberían hacer las preguntas; aquella economía como tal no es influida hacia ningún sistema particular de asignar recursos; que las ideas de economistas en cuanto a economistas sean a menudo el radical; y que cualquier conclusión debe depender de valores así como de la economía. Como los valores inevitablemente están implicados, economistas en cuanto a los economistas nodeberían más ser esperado para alcanzar la unanimidad que alguien más.
Admittedly, some teachers of economics have undoubtedly acted as salesmen for the market system, and even perhaps for the status quo. Such attempts are of course no more justified by economics than the reverse attempted salesmanship by "radical economists." In each case, however, we may perhaps be reassured by a remark ofKenneth E. Boulding
Reconocidamente, algunos profesores de economía indudablemente han actuado como dependientes para el sistema de mercado, y aún quizás para el status quo. Tales tentativas son desde luego no más justificadas por la economía que el revés el arte de vender intentada por " economistas radicales. " En cada caso, sin embargo, quizás podemos ser tranquilizados por una observación deKenneth E. Boulding.
Moreover, because economists do speak with authority as to matters of efficiency and stability, and as to some aspects of economic growth, they have undoubtedly in some cases implied to their students that efficiency, stability, or growth should be considered as a supreme goal of a society. But none of these is a supreme goal, regardless of economists' special concerns with theircharacteristics and how they might be achieved. Robert L. Heilbroner has also recently suggested that present-day economists have lost the self-assurance of their predecessors, but he is careful, in suggesting their roles for the future, to interject neatly at crucial points such phrases as "the goals that it (society) has elected to pursue" and "a destination that society has chosen" (emphases...