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    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Sobre las causas de la crisis. 

      Crespo, Ricardo (Cultura Económica, 2008/Mayo 2009 Año XXVI/XXVII-N°73-74: 28-30.Centro de Estudios en Economia y Cultura Universidad Católica Argentina., 2009)
      Más allá de la postura de ontología social que se adopte (individualista u holista) está claro que los fenómenos sociales son, al menos, fenómenos complejos. Por eso, cualquier análisis de la actual crisis financiera y ...
    • Strengthening Cartwright’s Epistemological Positions through Aristotelian Arguments Otro título: Nancy Cartwright, millian and/or aristotelian 

      Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
    • Thinking about the financial and economic crisis: Some brief notes on its causes and remedies 

      Crespo, Ricardo ("Think, 8 , pp 97-103 doi:10.1017/S1477175609990042 ", 2009)
      An economic crisis is an unexpected phenomenon with strong consequences for nations, institutions and people’s wealth, habits, and behaviors. It departs from the ‘normal’ evolution of the affairs foreseen by economic theory. ...
    • Three Arguments Against Menger’s Suggested Aristotelianism 

      Crespo, Ricardo (Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2003)
      Specialists often maintain that Menger has been strongly influenced by Aristotle’s thought ideas. This paper shows that although using Aristotle’s categories and general framework there are some issues in which Menger’s ...
    • 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 ...
    • TWO CONCEPTIONS OF ECONOMICS 

      Crespo, Ricardo (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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Una reflexión sobre la razón teórica y la razón práctica en la economía 

      Crespo, Ricardo ("Revista Empresa y Humanismo Volumen XII N° 2, 2009 pp 107-152", 2009)
      Dadas las limitaciones de la noción estándar de racionalidad económica, estamos viviendo una explosión de nuevos adjetivos de la “racionalidad” en economía. El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer la aplicación a la ...
    • 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 ...