Browsing IAE-EC Capítulos de libro by Subject "Economics"
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Aristotle’s Science of Economics
(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 ... -
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 ...