The Nature Of Economic Thought

Author : Gábor Bíró
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000476965

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Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought by Gábor Bíró Pdf

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or downplayed in, mainstream histories of economic thought. The chapters show that organic aspects (that is, aspects related to sensitive, cognitive or social human qualities) were present in the economic ideas of a wide range of important thinkers including Hume, Smith, Malthus, Mill, Marshall, Keynes, Hayek and the Polanyi brothers. Moreover, the contributors to this thought-provoking volume reveal in turn that these aspects were crucial to how these key figures thought about the economy. This stimulating collection of essays will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of the history of economic thought, economic philosophy, heterodox economics, moral philosophy and intellectual history.

Author : J. J. Klant
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032988084

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The Nature of Economic Thought by J. J. Klant Pdf

This volume brings together Klants' work on the philosophy and methodology of economics. The book covers the history of economics, and then goes on to deal with the logical structure of economic theories, Friedman's use of metaphor, Keynes' methodology, and other issues.

Author : George Lennox Sharman Shackle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Economics
ISBN : LCCN:66050422

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The Nature of Economic Thought by George Lennox Sharman Shackle Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315534800

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Nature in the History of Economic Thought by Nathaniel Wolloch Pdf

From antiquity to our own time those interested in political economy have with almost no exceptions regarded the natural physical environment as a resource meant for human use. Focusing on the period 1600-1850, and paying particular attention to major figures including Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, David Ricardo and J.S. Mill, this book provides a detailed overview of the intellectual history of the economic consideration of nature from antiquity to modern times. It shows how even someone like Mill, who was clearly influenced by romantic notions regarding the spiritual need for contact with pristine nature, ultimately regarded it as an economic resource. Building on existing scholarship, this study demonstrates how the rise of modern sensitivity to nature, from the late eighteenth century in particular, was in fact a dialectical reaction to the growing distance of modern urban civilization from the natural environment. As such, the book offers an unprecedentedly detailed overview of the intellectual history of economic considerations of nature, whilst underlining how the history of this topic has been remarkably consistent.

Author : Joseph A. Schumpeter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351478922

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The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory by Joseph A. Schumpeter Pdf

Joseph A. Schumpeter was a monumental figure in the history and development of economics. This work brings together his brilliant lectures, delivered more than a century ago, in its first English-language paperback edition. Here, readers will discover Schumpeter's search for an economic science devoid of moral or political dogma. The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory works out what people should think of pure economics, what its nature is, what its methods and findings are, and where thought takes off from there. The book shows the limitations and weaknesses of nineteenth-century economics and how the field could be and was improved by establishing a fundamental differentiation between 'statistics' and 'dynamics'. To convey his arguments, Schumpeter uses certain axioms that form a consistent, self-contained system and show how sound economic science is based on facts and events rather than presuppositions or definitions. Schumpeter's larger aim, beyond a pedagogic tool, was to deduce changes in the market, trade, and exchange of goods and services. He defined the task of economy as the description of the system and its change tendencies. If that can be achieved unequivocally, without resorting to doctrine or dogma, then the field can be considered self-contained.

Author : William Dixon,David Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136499012

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

A key issue in economic discourse today is the relation (or lack of it) between economic behaviour and morality. Few (presumably) would want to deny that human beings are in some sense moral or ethical creatures, but the devil is in the detail. Should we think of economic behaviour as an essentially amoral process – a process adequately characterised by a means-ends rationality – into which any number of subjective ethical concerns or orientations may be intruded to give a particular action its determinate moral content? Or is it rather the case that our moral being runs deeper than this, in the sense that all of our behaviour – ‘economic’ or otherwise – is enabled or capacitated by a competence that is fundamentally ethical in character? 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. This book calls for a change in the way that the relation between economic behaviour and morality is understood – from an understanding of morality as a kind of preference that informs certain types of other-regarding behaviour (the way that modern economics understands the relationship), to an idea of morality as a competence that enables or, rather, conditions the possibility of all forms of human behaviour, other-regarding or not. Offering a new insight on homo economicus, this book will be of great interest to all those interested in the history of economics and of economic thought.

Author : Ragip Ege,Herrade Igersheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351624480

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The Individual and the Other in Economic Thought by Ragip Ege,Herrade Igersheim Pdf

The Philosophy of Economics primarily considers the economic agent as a moral subject. Economics, however, has long overlooked the agent’s moral – that is to say, reasonable – dimension, to focus instead on the strictly rational. This volume seeks to address this neglected topic through exploring the Individual and the Other. The economic agent refers to "himself" (herself) in terms of his desire and passions, yet also refers to others besides himself. For the rational economic agent, what is the nature of this relationship with the Other? Should it not be understood as undergoing a transformation once we come to consider the economic agent as a reasonable being? Through what process does the Other pass from being an instrument at the disposal of a rational agent to being an end in itself for a moral subject? In other words, how does another become "an Other"? These questions are behind the re-examination of certain fundamental notions which takes place in this book, an examination which involves a re-reading of certain great authors. With contributions from authors around the world, this work is divided into three main parts. The first deals with individuals from the history of economic thought such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt; this is then followed by a thematic section in which the concepts of recognition and subjectivity are questioned in a market context. Finally, the third part offers an analysis of the issue of "the Individual and the Other" in different fields of the recent economic analysis including game theory, decision theory or social choice. The Individual and the Other in Economic Thought aims to help the reader better understand how the relationship between the Individual and the Other has been conceived, conceptualized and framed in economic analysis. It will be of great use to graduate students, scholars and any reader interested in this crucial issue.

Author : Joseph A. Schumpeter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351478939

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The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory by Joseph A. Schumpeter Pdf

Joseph A. Schumpeter was a monumental figure in the history and development of economics. This work brings together his brilliant lectures, delivered more than a century ago, in its first English-language paperback edition. Here, readers will discover Schumpeter's search for an economic science devoid of moral or political dogma. The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory works out what people should think of pure economics, what its nature is, what its methods and findings are, and where thought takes off from there. The book shows the limitations and weaknesses of nineteenth-century economics and how the field could be and was improved by establishing a fundamental differentiation between 'statistics' and 'dynamics'. To convey his arguments, Schumpeter uses certain axioms that form a consistent, self-contained system and show how sound economic science is based on facts and events rather than presuppositions or definitions. Schumpeter's larger aim, beyond a pedagogic tool, was to deduce changes in the market, trade, and exchange of goods and services. He defined the task of economy as the description of the system and its change tendencies. If that can be achieved unequivocally, without resorting to doctrine or dogma, then the field can be considered self-contained.

Author : Roger S. Frantz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387240691

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Two Minds by Roger S. Frantz Pdf

The "Two Minds" noted economist Roger Frantz explores in this landmark book are, first, the analytical mind and, second, the intuitive mind. In part one he presents the leading theories on intuition, discusses recent developments in cognitive science, and borrows from such non-economist intuitors as Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk, Henri Poincare, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Robert Louis Stevenson to explore the role of intuition in science and creativity. In part two, Frantz considers the presumably analytic and logical nature of economics and then demonstrates the many ways in which economists from Adam Smith to Herbert Simon have relied on intuition as a fruitful mental activity. This book provides a rich complement and alternative perspective to some of the theoretical and mathematical models that have dominated the dismal science since the late 1940s.

Author : Israel M. Kirzner
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9781610162821

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Economic Point of View by Israel M. Kirzner Pdf

Author : Werner Stark
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415175291

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The Ideal Foundations of Economic Thought by Werner Stark Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521478847

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Natural Images in Economic Thought by Philip Mirowski Pdf

This 1994 book was the first collection devoted to impact of natural sciences on content and form of economics in history.

Author : Ragip Ege,Herrade Igersheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351624473

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The Individual and the Other in Economic Thought by Ragip Ege,Herrade Igersheim Pdf

The Philosophy of Economics primarily considers the economic agent as a moral subject. Economics, however, has long overlooked the agent’s moral – that is to say, reasonable – dimension, to focus instead on the strictly rational. This volume seeks to address this neglected topic through exploring the Individual and the Other. The economic agent refers to "himself" (herself) in terms of his desire and passions, yet also refers to others besides himself. For the rational economic agent, what is the nature of this relationship with the Other? Should it not be understood as undergoing a transformation once we come to consider the economic agent as a reasonable being? Through what process does the Other pass from being an instrument at the disposal of a rational agent to being an end in itself for a moral subject? In other words, how does another become "an Other"? These questions are behind the re-examination of certain fundamental notions which takes place in this book, an examination which involves a re-reading of certain great authors. With contributions from authors around the world, this work is divided into three main parts. The first deals with individuals from the history of economic thought such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt; this is then followed by a thematic section in which the concepts of recognition and subjectivity are questioned in a market context. Finally, the third part offers an analysis of the issue of "the Individual and the Other" in different fields of the recent economic analysis including game theory, decision theory or social choice. The Individual and the Other in Economic Thought aims to help the reader better understand how the relationship between the Individual and the Other has been conceived, conceptualized and framed in economic analysis. It will be of great use to graduate students, scholars and any reader interested in this crucial issue.

Author : E. K. Hunt
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765606070

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History of Economic Thought by E. K. Hunt Pdf

Revolutionary advances in biomedical research and information systems technology pose new and difficult issues for American health care policy, especially in the context of managed care. Health Care Policy in an Age of New Technologies takes on this challenging array of issues, where the dignity of individual life meets the imperatives of the national-level health care system: the right to die, rationing of care, organ transplants, experiments with human embryos, genetic research, confidentiality of medical records, and other ethical dilemmas. Chapters on a patient's bill of rights, and on medical education and physician training, link the book to policy issues of direct concern to the public and practitioners. Throughout the book, the authors place critical questions in their political, legal, social, economic, and ethical context. Each chapter ends with discussion points, and a multimedia bibliography directs readers to relevant films, documentaries, and case studies.

Author : Antoin Murphy,Renee Prendergast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134608201

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Contributions to the History of Economic Thought by Antoin Murphy,Renee Prendergast Pdf

Featuring original contributions from some of the leading contemporary figures in the history of economic thought, this book offers new perspectives on key topics, from Smith's Wealth of Nations to the Jevonian Revolution. Drawing inspiration from the life and work of R.D.C. Black, formerly Professor of Economics at Queen's University Belfast, this book will be of essential interest to any serious scholar of economic thought.