The Eclipse Of Value Free Economics The Concept Of Multiple Self Versus Homo Economicus

Author : Aleksander Ostapiuk
Publisher : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788376958538

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The Eclipse of Value-Free Economics. The concept of multiple self versus homo economicus by Aleksander Ostapiuk Pdf

The books’ goal is to answer the question: Do the weaknesses of value-free economics imply the need for a paradigm shift? The author synthesizes criticisms from different perspectives (descriptive and methodological). Special attention is paid to choices over time, because in this area value-free economics has the most problems. In that context, the enriched concept of multiple self is proposed and investigated. However, it is not enough to present the criticisms towards value-free economics. For scientists, a bad paradigm is better than no paradigm. Therefore, the author considers whether value-based economics with normative approaches such as economics of happiness, capability approach, libertarian paternalism, and the concept of multiple self can be the alternative paradigm for value-free economics. This book is essential reading to everyone interested in the current state of economics as a discipline.

Author : Anna Horodecka,Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781040051795

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Collective Sustainable Consumption by Anna Horodecka,Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska Pdf

In the face of climate change and resulting environmental and social crises, sustainable consumption has become a widely discussed issue and a key plank of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The majority of the sustainable consumption research uses the SDG framework, but this only serves to reinforce an individualistic, efficiency-based approach and it does not sufficiently cover the specific situation of transition economies. In contrast, this volume promotes a collective approach to sustainable consumption, and combines general theoretical issues with empirical examples from the Polish economy. The first part of the book presents a theoretical approach to collective consumption which has the core concepts of justice and human nature at its heart. This approach emphasises the role of collective rationality and categorises aspects of sustainable consumption as a common and public good. The second part investigates diversified aspects of sustainability, including socio-economic inequalities as barriers to sustainable consumption, consumer sovereignty in the context of current legal regulations, and the impact on employees of changes to the types and conditions of work. It also examines the sharing economy and the legal conditions of its development. The third part adopts a political perspective focusing on the state policies enhancing the role of investment in public goods, analyses photovoltaic programmes which promote prosumption and indicates challenges to sustainability faced by many countries such as the energy crisis, sustainable finance, and cooperative platforms. This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars interested in sustainability and consumption issues in economics, management, law, public administration, and political science.

Author : John B. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139495462

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Individuals and Identity in Economics by John B. Davis Pdf

This book examines the different conceptions of the individual that have emerged in recent new approaches in economics, including behavioral economics, experimental economics, social preferences approaches, game theory, neuroeconomics, evolutionary and complexity economics, and the capability approach. These conceptions are classified according to whether they seek to revise the traditional atomist individual conception, put new emphasis on interaction and relations between individuals, account for individuals as evolving and self-organizing, and explain individuals in terms of capabilities. The method of analysis uses two identity criteria for distinguishing and re-identifying individuals to determine whether these different individual conceptions successfully identify individuals. Successful individual conceptions account for sub-personal and supra-personal bounds on single individual explanations. The former concerns the fragmentation of individuals into multiple selves; the latter concerns the dissolution of individuals into the social. The book develops an understanding of bounded individuality, seen as central to the defense of human rights.

Author : Hilary Putnam,Vivian Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136576812

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The End of Value-Free Economics by Hilary Putnam,Vivian Walsh Pdf

This book brings together key players in the current debate on positive and normative science and philosophy and value judgements in economics. Both editors have engaged in these debates throughout their careers from its early foundations; Putnam as a doctorial student of Hans Reichenbach at UCLA and Walsh a junior member of Lord Robbins’s department at the London School of Economics, both in the early 1950s. This book collects recent contributions from Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen and Partha Dasgupta, as well as a new chapter from the editors.

Author : William Dixon,David Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 020314287X

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A History of Homo Economicus by William Dixon,David Wilson Pdf

With new analyses of the work of Hobbes and Smith, Dixon and Wilson offer a fresh approach to the debate surrounding economics and morality with a novel discussion of the self in economic theory.

Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521346835

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The Multiple Self by Jon Elster Pdf

Considers how the hypotheses of a multiple self can deal with the problems of self-deception and weakness of will and how the conceptual tools developed in the study of interpersonal conflict can be applied.

Author : Mark White
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804768948

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Kantian Ethics and Economics by Mark White Pdf

This book integrates the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant—particularly the concepts of autonomy, dignity, and character—into economic theory, enriching models of individual choice and policymaking, while contributing to our understanding of how the economic individual fits into society.

Author : Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226922713

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From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities by Geoffrey M. Hodgson Pdf

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality. The complex interaction of morality and self-interest is at the heart of Geoffrey M. Hodgson’s approach to evolutionary economics, which is designed to bring about a better understanding of human behavior. In From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities, Hodgson casts a critical eye on neoclassical individualism, its foundations and flaws, and turns to recent insights from research on the evolutionary bases of human behavior. He focuses his attention on the evolution of morality, its meaning, why it came about, and how it influences human attitudes and behavior. This more nuanced understanding sets the stage for a fascinating investigation of its implications on a range of pressing issues drawn from diverse environments, including the business world and crucial policy realms like health care and ecology. This book provides a valuable complement to Hodgson’s earlier work with Thorbjørn Knudsen on evolutionary economics in Darwin’s Conjecture, extending the evolutionary outlook to include moral and policy-related issues.

Author : Uskali Mäki,Adrian Walsh,Manuela Fernández Pinto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351671866

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Scientific Imperialism by Uskali Mäki,Adrian Walsh,Manuela Fernández Pinto Pdf

The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines. In particular, the incursion of one scientific discipline into another discipline’s traditional domain, also known as scientific imperialism, has been a matter of increasing debate. Following this trend, Scientific Imperialism aims to bring together philosophers of science and historians of science interested in the topic of scientific imperialism and, in particular, interested in the conceptual clarification, empirical identification, and normative assessment of the idea of scientific imperialism. Thus, this innovative volume has two main goals. Indeed, the authors first seek to understand interdisciplinary relations emerging from the incursion of one scientific discipline into one or more other disciplines, such as in cases in which the conventions and procedures of one discipline or field are imposed on other fields; or more weakly when a scientific discipline seeks to explain phenomena that are traditionally considered proper of another discipline’s domain. Secondly, the authors explore ways of distinguishing imperialistic from non-imperialistic interactions between disciplines and research fields. The first sustained study of scientific imperialism, this volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Science & Technology, Philosophy of Science, and History of Science.

Author : Luigino Bruni,Flavio Comim,Maurizio Pugno
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191559716

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Capabilities and Happiness by Luigino Bruni,Flavio Comim,Maurizio Pugno Pdf

Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human actions. However, approaches on how to define, measure, evaluate, and promote well-being differ widely. The conventional economic approach takes income (or the power to acquire market goods) as the most important indicator for well-being, and the utility function as the formal device for positive and normative analysis. However, this approach to well-being has been questioned for being seriously limited and other approaches have arisen. The capability approach to well-being, which has been developed during the last two decades by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, and the Happiness Approach to well-being, championed by Richard Easterlin, both provide an alternative. Both approaches come from different traditions and have developed independently, but nevertheless aim to overcome the rigid boundaries of the conventional economic approach to well-being. Given these common aims, it is surprising that little comparative work has been undertaken across these approaches. This book aims to correct this by providing the reader with contributions from leading names associated with both approaches, as well as contributions which evaluate the approaches and contrast one with the other.

Author : Paul Feyerabend
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226245324

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Killing Time by Paul Feyerabend Pdf

Killing Time is the story of Paul Feyerabend's life. Trained in physics and astronomy, Feyerabend was best known as a philosopher of science. His fame was in powerful, plain-spoken critiques of "big" science and "big" philosophy.

Author : Wendy Brown
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781935408536

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Undoing the Demos by Wendy Brown Pdf

This is a book for the age of resistance, for the occupiers of the squares, for the generation of Occupy Wall Street. The premier radical political philosopher of our time offers a devastating critique of the way neoliberalism has hollowed out democracy.

Author : Faustino Ballvé
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9781610164535

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Essentials of Economics by Faustino Ballvé Pdf

Author : John Perry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520029607

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Personal Identity by John Perry Pdf

This volume brings together the vital contributions of distinguished past and contemporary philosophers to the important topic of personal identity. The first part sets forth the attempts by John Locke, Anthony Quinton, and H. P. Grice to analyze personal identity in terms of memory. The eleven other selections are largely critical of this approach and provide alternative perspectives. Part II contains classic contributions by Joseph Butler, Thomas Reid, and Sydney S. Shoemaker, and a new paper by John Perry--"Personal Identity, Memory, and the Problem of Circularity"--in which he defends some of the central features of the Locke-Grice-Quinton approach. Part III contains three sections from David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature: "Our idea of Identity," "Of Personal Identity," and an appendix which the editor has entitled "Second Thoughts." In the fourth part of the volume, Bernard Williams discusses "The Self and the Future," and Derek Parfit contributes his view of "Personal Identity." A recurring theme throughout the work is the possibility of "body transfer"--of a single person having, at different times, different bodies. In the final section of the volume ("Brian Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness"), Thomas Nagel examines the philosophical implications of recent scientific research on split-brain patients' he discusses the possibility, entertained by some researchers, that such cases involve two persons simultaneously inhabiting a single body. In his long introduction to this unique anthology on a topic of prime interest to the philosophical community, Mr. Perry scrutinizes the differing approaches and vocabularies of the various authors. The editor also includes "Suggestions for Further Reading."

Author : Ernesto Screpanti,Stefano Zamagni
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191647765

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An Outline of the History of Economic Thought by Ernesto Screpanti,Stefano Zamagni Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of economics from its beginnings, at the end of the Middle Ages, up to contemporary developments. It is strong on contemporary theory, providing extensive coverage of the twentieth century, particularly since the Second World War. The second edition has been revised and updated to take account of new developments in economic thought.