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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. ...
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 ...