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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 ...
Abducing the Crisis
(In L. Magnani, W. Carnielli and C. Pizzi (eds.), Model Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Abduction, Logic and Computational Discovery, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 314. Springer Verlag: 179-198., 2010)
Macroeconomic crises are events marked by “broken promises”
that shatter the expectations that many agents had entertained about their
economic prospects and wealth positions. Crises lead to reappraisals of the
views ...
Would we have had this crisis if women had been running the financial sector?
(Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment,Volume 1 Issue 3-4, 2011:241-250, 2011)
The two main ethical approaches, utilitarianism and deontology, have not been able to prevent some of the behaviours underlying the financial crisis. A third ethics, the ethics of care, might have been more effective than ...
The common good and economics
(“The Common Good and Economics”, en Cuadernos de Economía A10, A13, B59, 2015)
This paper analyzes the meaning of the ‘common good’ and its impact on economics.It adopts the ‘classical notion of the common good’ which, conceived by Aristotle and furtherdeveloped by Thomas Aquinas, has been widely ...
LIBERTAD Y COORDINACIÓN EN ECONOMÍA: UN ANÁLISIS EPISTEMOLÓGICO
(Empresa y Humanismo - Año 2003 Vol. VI nº2 , 2003)
Este trabajo comienza señalando las dificultades de orden epistemológico que las
teorías económicas tienen para considerar la libertad humana. Sugiere que la racionalidad
práctica aristotélica puede ser una posición ...
“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. ...
Una nueva lógica para la economía
(Persona y Cultura. Número 8, Año 8. Arequipa: Universidad Católica de San Pablo, 2011)
Recordando las enseñanzas de su última encíclica, Caritas in veritate, en un reciente discurso a
los asistentes a la reunión anual del Banco de Desarrollo del Consejo de Europa1, Benedicto XVI
reclamó «la novedad de ...
Aristotle on the economy
(Philosophia, 2010)
From seemingly outdated passages of Aristotle on oikonomikè,
this paper tries to select and separate what is old-fashioned from
what is valid for today. From these latter elements –which may be
abridged in the intrinsic ...