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    • Abducing the Crisis 

      Crespo, Ricardo; Tohmé, Fernando; Heymann, Daniel (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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Aristotle on the economy 

      Crespo, Ricardo (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      From seemingly outdated passages of Aristotle on oikonomikè, this paper tries to select and separate what is old-fashioned from what is valid for today.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 ...
    • Aristotle. 

      Crespo, Ricardo (In Van Staveren, I., Peil, J. (eds.) . Elgar Handbook of Economics and Ethics: . London: ., 2007)
      In his Lives of the Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius depicts a very well known outline of Aristotle’s life and work, characterizing him as a morally good person. Diogenes transcribes Aristotle’s testament where he expressed ...
    • Aristotle’s Science of Economics 

      Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • The common good and economics 

      Crespo, Ricardo (“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 ...
    • Cuestiones implícitas al medir en economía: El índice de desarrollo humano (IDH) como un estudio de campo. 

      Crespo, Ricardo; Adrogué, Cecilia (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 ...
    • DESDE LA ECONOMÍA COMO RELIGIÓN HASTA LA RELIGIÓN COMO ECONOMÍA 

      Crespo, Ricardo (Empresa y Humanismo - Año 2000 Vol. II nº2, 2000)
      La economía se ha transformado en la nueva religión contemporánea. En este trabajo se intenta mostrar cómo el punto de vista económico se constituye en el criterio de análisis actual de todas las realidades humanas: la ...
    • 'The Economic' According to Aristotle: Ethical, Political and Epistemological Implications [ 

      Crespo, Ricardo (Foundations of Science 13 (3-4):281-294 (2008), 2008)
      A renewed concern with Aristotle’s thought about the economic aspects of human life and society can be observed. Aristotle dealt with the economic issues in his practical philosophy. He thus considered ‘the economic’ ...
    • El conocimiento directivo como ciencia práctica 

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

      Crespo, Ricardo; Martinez-Cinca, Carlos Diego (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 ...
    • The Future of Mathematics in Economics: a Philosophically Grounded Proposal 

      Crespo, Ricardo; Tohmé, Fernando (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 ...
    • Happiness Economics, Eudaimonia and Positive Psychology: From Happiness Economics to Flourishing Economics 

      Crespo, Ricardo; Mesurado, Belen (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 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 increasing role of practical reason in the Human Development Reports 

      Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
    • LA CIENCIA ECONÓMICA 

      Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...