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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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(Philosophia, 2010)From seemingly outdated passages of Aristotle on oikonomikè, this paper tries to select and separate what is old-fashioned from what is valid for today.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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
El Pensamiento ético y político de John Maynard Keynes
(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. ... -
“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. ... -
The Increasing Role of Practical Reason in the Human Development Reports
(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 ... -
"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 ... -
Review of Andrew M. Yuengert’s Approximating prudence: Aristotelian practical wisdom and economic models of choice.
(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 ...