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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 ...
La noción de liberalismo en Liberalism Ancient and Modern de Leo Strauss
(In Rodriguez de Grozna, Mirtha. Estudios sobre Leo Strauss, 2010)
El significado del término “liberalismo” es notablemente ambiguo. Muchas veces me he prometido no usarlo para evitar el conjunto de confusiones que comporta. Por eso, cuando se habla o, con mayor frecuencia, se discute, ...
"Living in Complex Economies: On Inconsistent Expectations and Economic Crises "
(Filosofía de la economía. Publicación del Centro de investigación en Epistemología de las Ciencias Económicas. FCE-UBA:71-86., 2013)
Economic crises are associated with large shocks to beliefs and expectations. Thus, their
study includes the strategies that economic actors use to interpret and anticipate the
evolution of their environment. In this ...
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 ...
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. ...
La “pirámide invertida” de capacidades
(Revista de Economía Política de Buenos Aires (F. de Economía, UBA), 2009)
Una crítica del “enfoque capacidades” (EC) de Sen
es que resulta poco operativo debido al carácter heterogéneo
de éstas. Sólo parece haber soluciones para
cada caso concreto. Pero esta respuesta no es suficiente
para ...
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 ...
Aristotle’s Science of Economics
(In Harper, R. I., Gregg, S. (Eds.) . Christian Theology And Market Economics: Part I : Christianity and the history of economic thought, Chapter 1: 13-24. London: ., 2008)
In this chapter the Aristotelian conception of the economic science will be explained.
First, the notion of oikonomike will be introduced. Then, it will be determined whether
Economics was a science for Aristotle. In the ...
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 ...