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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. ...
Cuestiones implícitas al medir en economía: El índice de desarrollo humano (IDH) como un estudio de campo.
(Revista Cultura Económica, Diciembre 2010, Año XXVIII, No. 79:33-42., 2010)
An ancient desire of human beings has
been to manage the future by fixing ends and
means and calculating the best allocation of the
later into the former. The earliest testimony of
this ambition is expressed in Plato’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Abduction in Economics: a Conceptual Framework and its Model
(Synthese:December 2013, Volume 190, Issue 18, pp 4215-4237, 2013)
We discuss in this paper the scope of abduction in Economics. The
literature on this type of inference shows that it can be interpreted in di erent
ways, according to the role and nature of its outcome. We present a ...