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“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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Two Conceptions of Economics and Maximization
(Cambridge Journal of Economics 2013, 37, 759–774 doi:10.1093/cje/bes076, 2011)Economics has evolved from a ‘domain-focused’ conception, i.e. the study of specific kinds of human activities, to a ‘scarcity-based’ conception, i.e. the study of a particular approach to all human choices. It thus enlarged ... -
Aristóteles y el pensamiento económico: una introducción.
(Revista Empresa y Humanismo, Vol. XIV, N°2: 5-11., 2011)Constituye un hecho indiscutible el indudable peso que la filosofía de Aristóteles ha tenido en el desarrollo de la moderna ciencia de la economía; entendiendo por tal la que se inicia a partir del siglo XVIII. Aristóteles ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
La legitimidad y alcance de la medición en ciencias sociales
(Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Economicas, UNC-LIX/128, 2009-2010:63-78., 2010)En este trabajo luego de analizar la naturaleza de la matemática, del número y de la medición se trata de determinar la legitimidad y alcance de varios tipos de mediciones propios de las ciencias sociales, especialmente ... -
LA CIENCIA ECONÓMICA
(Epistemologia de las ciencias sociales, A. Pithod, Editorial Porrúa:145-159, 2010)No recuerdo en qué museo vi una preciosa acuarela del gran pintor valenciano Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida que me llamó la atención. Me encanta la pintura de Sorolla, pero en este cuadro había algo más. Representaba a un grupo ... -
El conocimiento directivo como ciencia práctica
(Epistemologia de las ciencias sociales, A. Pithod, 2010)En los últimos años asistimos a un creciente interés en conocer el pensamiento de autores clásicos sobre cuestiones fundamentales de la vida humana. Esta nueva atención a dichos autores se origina, en primer lugar, en que ... -
The increasing role of practical reason in the Human Development Reports
(Review of Social Economy 71,1:93-107., 2013)This paper will argue for the need to reinsert practical reason into economics. It will first define, classify, and characterize practical reason. Second, it will show how it applies to Economics (Section 3). Then, it will ... -
El revisionismo austríaco y la concepción aristotélica del valor. Sesgos y claves para una nueva revisión
(Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía. Vol. 30 Núm. 1 11-26, 2013)El revisionismo austríaco discutió la tesis de la historiografía económica clásica en torno a una supuesta incomprensión escolástica del mercado fundada en el “justo precio” y en la concepción aristotélica del valor, y ... -
Happiness Economics, Eudaimonia and Positive Psychology: From Happiness Economics to Flourishing Economics
(Journal of happiness studies, June 2014,, 2014)A remarkable current development, happiness economics focuses on the relevance of people’s happiness in economic analyses. As this theory has been criticised for relying on an incomplete notion of happiness, this paper ... -
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 ... -
The Future of Mathematics in Economics: a Philosophically Grounded Proposal
(The Future of Mathematics in Economics: a Philosophically Grounded Proposal - Fundations of Science, 2016)The use of mathematics in economics has been widely discussed. The philosophical discussion on what mathematics is remains unsettled on why it can be applied to the study of the real world. We propose to get back to some ... -
TWO CONCEPTIONS OF ECONOMICS
(Journal of Applied Economics-Leading Paper-Vol.XIV,N°2, November 2011:181-197., 2011)As Ronald Coase points out there are two kinds of conceptions of economics: first, the conception that emphasizes the study of specific kinds of human activities; and second, the conception that makes economics the study ... -
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 ... -
Strengthening Cartwright’s Epistemological Positions through Aristotelian Arguments Otro título: Nancy Cartwright, millian and/or aristotelian
(Sapientia (F. de Filosofía, UCA), 2009)There is renewed interest concerning the relevance of Aristotle’s thought for contemporary science. This is especially true regarding the political, moral and economic aspects of human life and society. Aristotelian insights ... -
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 ...