History Of Economic Rationalities

Author : Jakob Bek-Thomsen,Christian Olaf Christiansen,Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen,Mikkel Thorup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319528151

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History of Economic Rationalities by Jakob Bek-Thomsen,Christian Olaf Christiansen,Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen,Mikkel Thorup Pdf

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems. Through multiple case-studies, situated in different historical contexts of the modern West, the book shows that the development of economic rationalities takes place in the meeting with other regimes of thought, values, and moral discourses. The book offers new and refreshing insights, ranging from the development of early economic thinking to economic aspects and concepts in the works of classical thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Karl Marx, to the role of economic reasoning in contemporary policies of art and health care. With economic rationalities as the read thread, the reader is offered a unique chance of historical self-awareness and recollection of how economic rationality became the powerful ideological and moral force that it is today.

Author : Michel Zouboulakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317817499

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The Varieties of Economic Rationality by Michel Zouboulakis Pdf

The concept of economic rationality is important for the historical evolution of Economics as a scientific discipline. The common idea about this concept -even between economists- is that it has a unique meaning which is universally accepted. This new volume argues that "economic rationality" is not not a universal concept with one single meaning, and that it in fact has different, if not conflicting, interpretations in the evolution of discourse on economics. In order to achieve this, the book traces the historical evolution of the concept of economic rationality from Adam Smith to the present, taking in thinkers from Mill to Friedman, and encompassing approaches from neoclassical to behavioural economics. The book charts this history in order to reveal important instances of conceptual transformation of the meaning of economic rationality. In doing so, it presents a uniquely detailed study of the historical change of the many faces of the homo oeconomicus .

Author : Maurice Godelier
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781680377

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Rationality and Irrationality in Economics by Maurice Godelier Pdf

This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions: First, what is the rationality of the economic systems that appear and disappear throughout history—in other words, what is their hidden logic and the underlying necessity for them to exist, or to have existed? Second, what are the conditions for a rational understanding of these systems—in other words, for a fully developed comparative economic science? The field of investigation opened up by these two questions is vast, touching on the foundations of social reality and on how to understand them. The author, being a Marxist, sought the answers, as he writes, ‘not in philosophy or by philosophical means, but in and through examining the knowledge accumulated by the sciences.’ The stages of his journey from philosophy to economics and then to anthropology are indicated by the divisions of his book. Godelier rejects, at the outset, any attempt to tackle the question of rationality or irrationality of economic science and of economic realities from the angle of an a priori idea, a speculative definition of what is rational. Such an approach can yield only, he feels, an ideological result. Rather, he treats the appearance and disappearance of social and economic systems in history as being governed by a necessity ‘wholly internal to the concrete structures of social life.

Author : Ken Dennis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401148627

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Rationality in Economics: Alternative Perspectives by Ken Dennis Pdf

Ideas linked to rational choice theory started to appear frequently in the economics literature in the 1960s and 1970s, but the attention given to rationality widened to include commentators presenting far-reaching appraisals and critiques. The literature grew to a steady flow and spanned diverse areas of thought including socialist and `rational-choice Marxist' assessments, and other approaches including institutional, sociological, psychological, ethical, choice-theoretical, strategic, and game-theoretical treatments of rationality. This diversity of literature led to the creation of this volume. What does rationality mean? Was there some common core of meaning that held all of these seemingly disparate developments together, or were there discernable schools of thought with peculiarities that set them clearly apart from one another? The essays in this volume illustrate that diversity, and despite the variety of approaches there remains a common core of meaning that accommodates not so much a radically different set of concepts of rationality as a highly variegated array of methods and approaches to this subject. Contributors address topics of their choice on the concept of rationality in economics, and the selection of these contributors is meant to represent a variety of backgrounds and approaches.

Author : Armando C. Ochangco
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1858989558

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Rationality in Economic Thought by Armando C. Ochangco Pdf

The main theme of this book is the methodological problem of rationality in economic thought. The author investigates the different interpretations of this problem advanced by major figures in the history of economic thought. The book examines the history and rationality of the 'theory of value' from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall and attempts to understand these arguments and criticisms within a general methodological vein. It goes on to provide a complete historical account of the ideas and arguments on value propounded by Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Jevons, Walras and Marshall as well as by more recent scholars such as Sraffa and Debreu and interprets their methodological differences. The author proposes a novel 'pragmatic-pluralist' methodological interpretation which borrows and creatively synthesizes ideas from many sources, including Wittgenstein (language-games), Searle (performatives), Habermas (communicative reason), hermeneutics, Marx and the pragmatic tradition. Rationality in Economic Thought will be of interest to students and scholars of the history of economic thought, economic methodology and the philosophy of the social sciences.

Author : L. D. Keita
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0874134102

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Science, Rationality, and Neoclassical Economics by L. D. Keita Pdf

This work examines the claim to scienific status made by supporters and practitioners of neoclassical economics. The approach taken is that of the history and philosophy of science. Analysis points to the conclusion that theories of economic choice are necessarily normative, essentially because of the nature of human behavior.

Author : Bill J Gerrard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134915293

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The Economics of Rationality by Bill J Gerrard Pdf

The concept of rationality is the heart of modern economics. Neo-classical theory seems unable to proceed without assuming a rational agent seeking to find the optimal means to a well defined end. Yet many find this uncritical treatment of rationality problematic. It takes little account of culture history or creativity and consequently many economists find this insistence on rationality of little use when trying to explain a wide range of economic phenomena. Increasingly these include a large number of game theorists and others involved in mainstream theory as well as those typically opposed to neo-classicism. The Economics of Rationality contains a number of critical perspectives on the treatment of rationality in economics.

Author : Monika Poettinger,Gianfranco Tusset
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317326717

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Economic Thought and History by Monika Poettinger,Gianfranco Tusset Pdf

Economic Thought and History looks at the relationship between facts and thought in historical economic research, viewing it in the context of periods of economic crisis and providing detailed analyses of methods used in determining the bond between economic history and economic theory. This interdisciplinary collection brings together international researchers in the history of economic thought and economic history in order to confront varying approaches to the study of economic facts and ideas, rethinking boundaries, methodologies and the object of their disciplines. The chapters explore the relationship between economic thought and economic theory from a variety of perspectives, exploring the relationship between history and economics, and the boundaries defining the history of economic thought, in terms of both single authors and schools of thought. The book offers particular insights on the Italian tradition of thought. The uniquely interdisciplinary and analytical approach presented here bridges the methodological gap between these disciplines, unearthing a fertile common ground of research. This book is intended for Postgraduate students conducting further research into the field, or for professors and academics of economic history and history of economic thought.

Author : Peter Róna,László Zsolnai,Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030526733

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Words, Objects and Events in Economics by Peter Róna,László Zsolnai,Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price Pdf

This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume of the Virtues in Economics series and represent further contributions to the themes set out in that volume: (i) examining the philosophical and methodological fallacies of this turn in modern economic theory that the removal of the moral motivation of economic agents from modern economic theory has entailed; and (ii) proposing a return descriptive economics as the means with which the moral content of economic life could be restored in economic theory. This book is of interest to researchers and students of the methodology of economics, ethics, philosophers concerned with agency and economists who build economic models that rest in the intention of the agent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134099375

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From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vernon L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139466462

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Rationality in Economics by Vernon L. Smith Pdf

The principal findings of experimental economics are that impersonal exchange in markets converges in repeated interaction to the equilibrium states implied by economic theory, under information conditions far weaker than specified in the theory. In personal, social, and economic exchange, as studied in two-person games, cooperation exceeds the prediction of traditional game theory. This book relates these two findings to field studies and applications and integrates them with the main themes of the Scottish Enlightenment and with the thoughts of F. A. Hayek: through emergent socio-economic institutions and cultural norms, people achieve ends that are unintended and poorly understood. In cultural changes, the role of constructivism, or reason, is to provide variation, and the role of ecological processes is to select the norms and institutions that serve the fitness needs of societies.

Author : Stephen G. Engelmann
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822331225

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Imagining Interest in Political Thought by Stephen G. Engelmann Pdf

DIVEngelmann revisits Jeremy Bentham's work in the context of later liberal political theorists./div

Author : Helmut Staubmann,Victor Lidz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319623771

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Rationality in the Social Sciences by Helmut Staubmann,Victor Lidz Pdf

This volume presents for the first time a collection of historically important papers written on the concept of rationality in the social sciences. In 1939-40, the famed Austrian economist Joseph A. Schumpeter and the famous sociologist Talcott Parsons convened a faculty seminar at Harvard University on the topic of rationality. The first part includes their essays as well as papers by the Austrian phenomenologist Alfred Schütz, the sociologist Wilbert Moore, and the economist Rainer Schickele. Several younger economists and sociologists with bright futures also participated, including Alex Gerschenkron, John Dunlop, Paul M. Sweezy, and Wassily W. Leontief, who was later awarded the Nobel Prize for developing input-output analysis. The second part presents essays and commentaries written by today’s internationally noted social scientists and addressing the topic of rationality in social action from a broad range of perspectives. The book’s third and final part shares the recently discovered correspondence between the seminar principals regarding the original but failed plan to publish its proceedings. It also includes letters, not previously published, between Richard Grathoff, Walter M. Sprondel and Talcott Parsons on the rationality seminar and the exchanges between Parsons and Schütz.

Author : Richard B. McKenzie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642015861

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Predictably Rational? by Richard B. McKenzie Pdf

Mainstream economists everywhere exhibit an "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality." Behavioral economists, and long-time critic of mainstream economics suggests that people in mainstrean economic models "can think like Albert Einstein, store as much memory as IBM’s Big Blue, and exercise the will power of Mahatma Gandhi," suggesting that such a view of real world modern homo sapiens is simply wrongheaded. Indeed, Thaler and other behavioral economists and psychology have documented a variety of ways in which real-world people fall far short of mainstream economists' idealized economic actor, perfectly rational homo economicus. Behavioral economist Daniel Ariely has concluded that real-world people not only exhibit an array of decision-making frailties and biases, they are "predictably irrational," a position now shared by so many behavioral economists, psychologists, sociologists, and evolutionary biologists that a defense of the core rationality premise of modedrn economics is demanded.

Author : Graeme Donald Snooks
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472104950

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Economics Without Time by Graeme Donald Snooks Pdf

Historical, theoretical, and real time in economics.