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1、PapertobepresentedattheannualmeetingoftheEuropeanAssociationforEvolutionaryPoliticalEconomy(EAEPE)ththMaastricht(TheNetherlands),7-10November2003ForgingModernLabourEconomicsPedroNunoTeixeiraDepartmentofEconomics-UniversityofPortoandCEMPREpedrotx@fep.up.pt11.Int
2、roductionLaboureconomicsisoftentakenbyvividdiscussionsaboutthespecificityofthelabourmarketandtheneedtodevelopadifferentapproach,awayfromthecurrentstandardmicroeconomics.Whatisoftenforgottenisthatthiswasnotalwaysthecase.Labourresearchintheinterwaryearswasquitedi
3、fferentfromwhatweregardpresentlyaslaboureconomics,beingmuchmorebroadlyandlooselydefinedaslabourproblemsandlabourissuesandhavingmuchmorefragilelinkswiththeeconomicdiscipline,boththeoreticallyandinstitutionally.ThissituationwastransformedintheaftermathoftheWWII,w
4、itharedefinitionoflaboureconomicsresearchandtheprogressivecurtailmentoftheapparentisolationthatlabourresearchhadexperiencedfromitseconomicfoundations.Thisincreasingclosenesswitheconomics,meaningneoclassicaleconomics,wascertainlyrelatedwiththeemergenceofanewgene
5、rationoflabour(economists)researchersthatincludedthosethatwoulddominatethefieldforthefollowingtwodecades.1PreliminaryversionsofthispaperhavebeenpresentedinaseminaratExeterUniversityandtotheHistoryofEconomicsSocietyannualmeetingof2002.Theauthorisextremelygratefu
6、ltoProfs.MarkBlaug,JohnMaloney,RogerBackhouse,WarrenJ.Samuels,andMalcolmRutherfordfortheircommentsandsuggestions,thoughtheusualcaveatapplies.ThisresearchhasbeengenerouslysupportedbytheProgramPraxisXXIoftheFundaçãoparaaCiênciaeaTecnologia(PortugueseMinistryofSci
7、ence)andbytheDepartmentofEconomics–UniversityofPorto.CEMPREissponsoredbytheFundaçãoparaaCiênciaeaTecnologia(PortugueseMinistryofScience).1However,amongthisgenerationtherewerevariousdegreesofadherencetotheneoclassicalbasicframeworkanditssuitabilitytoanalysethela
8、bourmarket,andthetransitionprocesswascharacterisedbyasetofdebateshighlightingthemultifarious,complex,andevencontradictoryviewsofthisgenerationonthepathstobetakeninthedevelop