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The ontology of ‘the Economic’: An Aristotelian analysis
(Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2006)Tony Lawson’s and Uskali Mäki’s respective realist projects rely on an ontology of the economy. This paper will not focus on these research projects but will instead try to shed light on them by introducing an ontology ... -
Practical comparability and Ends in Economics
(Journal of Economic Methodology,14:3,371-393, 2007)This paper endeavours to summarize a variety of arguments for a reconsideration of ends in Economics. The logical structure of the rationality of ends (practical rationality) differs from the one of means (instrumental ... -
Practical reasoning in economic affairs: The HD Index as a case study
(In Vitor Neves (ed.) Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics. New York: Routledge:150-179., 2012)The French philosopher of science Gilles-Gaston Granger (1992) explains that in the domain of Economics we must take into account three aspects of economic rationality if we want to achieve a correct and complete analysis. ... -
The Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization
("Journal of Applied Economics. (CEMA), Vol XIII, No. 1 (May 2010), 91-120.", 2010)We study the distortions of industrial organization caused by entry regulation. We take advantage of heterogeneity across industries in their natural barriers and growth opportunities to examine whether industries are ... -
Review of Andrew M. Yuengert’s Approximating prudence: Aristotelian practical wisdom and economic models of choice.
(Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Volume 6, Issue 1,Spring 2013, pp. 127-133., 2013)Although it may sound paradoxical, this is a positive book about the limitations of economics. All sciences necessarily simplify. Sciences try to think deeply about their subjects, and to think we need to put away the ... -
Sen y Aristóteles. Razón práctica y economía
(Cuadernos Empresa y Humanismo, 111, Instituto de Empresa y Humanismo, Universidad de Navarra, 2010, 98 pp.., 2010)Una tesis central de este texto es que los fines de la acción y la razón práctica están retornando a la Economía a través del “enfoque capacidades” (capability approach, CA) para el análisis de la pobreza, la igualdad y ... -
Small and medium enterprises financing in Eastern Europe.
(World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No.2933, Washington., 2002)There is currently a large interest in understanding firms' percentage of total employment) in Eastern European access to finance, particularly in the financing of small- countries is smaller than in most developed ... -
Sobre las causas de la crisis.
(Cultura Económica, 2008/Mayo 2009 Año XXVI/XXVII-N°73-74: 28-30.Centro de Estudios en Economia y Cultura Universidad Católica Argentina., 2009)Más allá de la postura de ontología social que se adopte (individualista u holista) está claro que los fenómenos sociales son, al menos, fenómenos complejos. Por eso, cualquier análisis de la actual crisis financiera y ... -
The Social License to Operate in the Latin American Mining Sector: The cases of Bajo de la Alumbrera and Michiquillay
(22nd Annual International Association of Conflict Management Conference, 2009)In this extended abstract we intend to show that, in several of the Latin American (LA) countries, the outcomes that may derived from the interactions between Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and the ever widening variety ... -
Strengthening Cartwright’s Epistemological Positions through Aristotelian Arguments Otro título: Nancy Cartwright, millian and/or aristotelian
(Sapientia (F. de Filosofía, UCA), 2009)There is renewed interest concerning the relevance of Aristotle’s thought for contemporary science. This is especially true regarding the political, moral and economic aspects of human life and society. Aristotelian insights ... -
A teleological causal mechanism for economics. Socio-economic machines.
(In A. Lazzarini & D. Weisman (eds.), Perspectives on Epistemology of Economics. FCE, UBA 2012, 123-138., 2012)In the last years, given the problems of the so-called ‘received view’, a new kind of explanation has appeared in the realm of the philosophy of science, the causal mechanism explanations. This kind of mechanism has been ... -
Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics. Capacities and Capabilities
(Springer Briefs in Philosophy, 2012)The aim of this book is to argue in favor of the usefulness of restoring the exercise of theoretical and practical reason in economics. The book presents some of Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen’s ideas as instances of ... -
Theory and practice of corporate finance: Evidence and distinctive features in Latin America
(Emerging Markets Review, 2011)We survey 290 LATAM firms on capital budgeting, cost of capital and capital structure issues. We analyze the results and compare them to those of other studies. We interpret differences according to special features ... -
Thinking about the financial and economic crisis: Some brief notes on its causes and remedies
("Think, 8 , pp 97-103 doi:10.1017/S1477175609990042 ", 2009)An economic crisis is an unexpected phenomenon with strong consequences for nations, institutions and people’s wealth, habits, and behaviors. It departs from the ‘normal’ evolution of the affairs foreseen by economic theory. ... -
Three Arguments Against Menger’s Suggested Aristotelianism
(Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2003)Specialists often maintain that Menger has been strongly influenced by Aristotle’s thought ideas. This paper shows that although using Aristotle’s categories and general framework there are some issues in which Menger’s ... -
Trade credit and bank credit: Evidence from recent financial crises
("Financial Market Development and emerging and transition economies. Hyderabad, India. ", 2003)This paper studies the effect of financial crises on trade credit for a sample of 890 firms in six emerging economies. Although the provision of trade credit increases right after a crisis, it contracts in the following ... -
Trade Receivables Policy of Distressed Firms and its Effect on the Cost of Financial Distress
(Financial Management, 2009)This paper studies the trade receivables policy of distressed firms as the trade-off between the firm's willingness to gain sales and the firm's need for cash. We find that firms increase trade receivables when they have ... -
The transformative capabilities of mediation on strenuous Labor-Management relation. An exploratory case study within the Telecommunications Sector in an emerging economy
(23rd Annual IACM Conference Paper, 2010)This paper examines how and why a mediation process may transform an antagonistic labormanagement relation, in two post-privatized telecommunications companies in an emerging economy, and make it evolve from severe ... -
Turning Sen's capability approach operative thanks to Aristotle's ideas
(Sapientia (F. de Filosofía, UCA) Sapientia Vol. LXV, Fasc. 225-226, 2009, 2010)The capabilities approaches (CA) have been originated in the work of the economist Amartya Sen on inequality. Sen, born in India in 1933, is currently Emeritus Professor of Harvard University. He is still active in teaching ... -
TWO CONCEPTIONS OF ECONOMICS
(Journal of Applied Economics-Leading Paper-Vol.XIV,N°2, November 2011:181-197., 2011)As Ronald Coase points out there are two kinds of conceptions of economics: first, the conception that emphasizes the study of specific kinds of human activities; and second, the conception that makes economics the study ...