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Working Capital Management: An Exploratory Study
(Journal of Applied Finance, 2012)
Working capital management is an issue in which finance research is scarce. One possible reason behind this fact might relate to the relative ease with which efficient financial markets correct deviations from optimal ...
The capabilities approaches and Aristotelian Practical Reason
(Revista de Instituciones, Ideas y Mercados, n. 57, año XXIX, octubre de 2012, pp. 57-86, 2012)
This paper deals with the problem of how to make decisions about
capabilities, as conceived by Amartya Sen. Given their incommensurable
character, how to determine the particular set of capabilities to be sought ...
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. ...
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 ...
El Pensamiento ético y político de John Maynard Keynes
(Deus Mortalis, n°10, 2011-2012, 2012)
La sola mención del nombre de Keynes ha generado, y sigue haciéndolo aún,
una serie de ideas poco objetivas. «La palabra “Keynes”», afirmaba su discípulo
y amigo Richard Kahn, «se ha transformado en un término abusivo»1. ...
Working Capital Management: An Exploratory Study
(Journal of Applied Finance, 2012)
Working capital management is an issue in which finance research is scarce. One possible reason behind this fact might relate to the relative ease with which efficient financial markets correct deviations from optimal ...
“MODELS AS SIGNS” AS “GOOD ECONOMIC MODELS”
(Revista de Estudios Económicos, UNS, Noviembre: 2012, 2012)
This paper applies John Poinsot’s doctrine about signs to the evaluation of “good
economic models”. First, a “good model” is defi ned. Then, Poinsot’s conceptual
framework and some current ideas about models are introduced. ...