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  • Nota sobre la naturaleza ‘política’ de ‘lo económico’ para Aristóteles 

    Crespo, Ricardo; Bertolloni, Francisco (Philosophia, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, N°73/1-Enero-Junio 2013:103-110., 2013)
    Esta nota intenta la solución del conflicto entre el carácter supuestamente pre-moral de la oikonomikê aristotélica por pertenecer a la oikia, y el carácter claramente moral que surge de la lectura de los textos aristotélicos ...
  • "Living in Complex Economies: On Inconsistent Expectations and Economic Crises " 

    Crespo, Ricardo; Heymann, Daniel; Schiaffino, Pablo (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 ...
  • El revisionismo austríaco y la concepción aristotélica del valor. Sesgos y claves para una nueva revisión 

    Crespo, Ricardo; Martinez-Cinca, Carlos Diego (Revista Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía Vol.30, N°1, 2013:11-26., 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 ...
  • Abduction in Economics: a Conceptual Framework and its Model 

    Tohmé, Fernando; Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
  • The Increasing Role of Practical Reason in the Human Development Reports 

    Crespo, Ricardo (Review of Social Economy, 2013, 2013)
    This paper will argue for the need to reinsert practical reason into economics. It will first define, classify and characterize practical reason. Secondly, it will show how it applies to Economics (Section 2). Then, it ...
  • The capabilities approaches and Aristotelian Practical Reason 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
  • Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics. Capacities and Capabilities 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
  • El Pensamiento ético y político de John Maynard Keynes 

    Crespo, Ricardo (Deus Mortalis, n°10, 2011-2012, 2012)
    La sola mención del nombre de Keynes ha generado, y sigue haciéndolo aún, una serie de ideas poco objetivas. «La palabra “Keynes”», afirmaba su discípulo y amigo Richard Kahn, «se ha transformado en un término abusivo»1. ...
  • Review of Andrew M. Yuengert’s Approximating prudence: Aristotelian practical wisdom and economic models of choice. 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
  • A teleological causal mechanism for economics. Socio-economic machines. 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
  • Practical reasoning in economic affairs: The HD Index as a case study 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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. ...
  • “MODELS AS SIGNS” AS “GOOD ECONOMIC MODELS” 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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? 

    Crespo, Ricardo; van Staveren, Irene (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 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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. 

    Crespo, Ricardo; MARTÍNEZECHEVARRÍA Y ORTEGA, MIGUEL ALFONSO (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 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 

    Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...

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