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FERNANDEZ MACOR, Claudio  y  LOPEZ CALDERON, Alberto. The analytical boundaries of mainstream economics and the ecological economics proposal. SaberEs [online]. 2016, vol.8, n.1, pp.01-21. ISSN 1852-4418.

The Mainstream economics theory has become a barrier to policy-makers, academics and students to understand and change the socio-economic and socio-environmental reality. Through an overlapping of assumptions and preconditions has been constructed an imagined representation, therefore unreal, of society, individuals and their relationships that inhibit a scientific approach to the major troubles of the 21st century. Moreover, hegemony and rigidity imposed in academic and political circles prevents access to the knowledge of critical economics theories, which we consider close and committed to the reality. In this paper we include the following issues: 1) report censorship on critical economics perspectives; 2) show the weaknesses of neoclassical economics theory to explain the economic dynamics by making explicit the screwy assumptions on which it is based; 3) introduce, as final considerations, some elements of new economics field: the ecological economics, in the conviction that it allow explain the socio environmental reality in order to transform it.

Palabras clave : Mode of production; Capitalist crises; Neoclassical economics; Ecological economics.

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