A kapitalizmus, mint akarat és képzet

Abstract

Our study’s title resembles Schopenhauer’s most famous book, but of course it does not want to refer to an (economic) philosophical theory basis similar to the Master’s. However we actually do lean on Schopenhauer’s theory if we try to find an answer to the following: what kind of realisation we could conclude to if the „forever surviving” capitalism is not seen as the description of actors’ rationality with the well recognisable natural order and its own pattern, but we see it as a related want to Keynes’ and others’ animal spirit belief and its product. But is the economic and social reproduction’s sometimes problematic but solid continuity explainable if we break up with the economic action’s classic and original – the consumer’s needs satisfying – target theory, and the causal and segmental (in other theories: balanced versus imbalanced) motifs’ sharp differentiation? In linking of our thoughts we connect to Joseph Vogl’s paragraphs in a book he wrote in a similar topic, raising several questions in its logical consequences, if – as opposed to Polányi’s paradigm – we see not the social institute system but the often hardly identifiable and even more vital “capitalist spirit” as the first “spring” in case of shaping the social-economic models.