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on History and Philosophy of Economics |
| By: | Munt Juan Leandro; Parodi Salvador; Carrión Gonzalo; Bosch Miguel |
| Abstract: | This paper proposes a methodological reconstruction of contemporary economic mainstream, privileging structural continuity over rupture theses. From a Lakatosian approach, the transformations undergone by game theory, experimental economics, and behavioral economics are examined, interpreting them as coherent extensions of the neoclassical program. Within this framework, Ariel Rubinstein’s internal critique of the naturalistic view of economic theory is revisited, arguing that his perceptual stance—focused on the plausibility and representational value of models—offers more consistent grounds for sustaining the continuity of economic analysis. This methodological notion is articulated with Don Ross’s ontological defense of qualitative prediction, put forward in response to Alexander Rosenberg’s objections concerning the empirical entity of the discipline. The paper concludes with a reflection on the metaxioms that organize economic judgment, highlighting the internal coherence of the mainstream and its adaptive capacity. |
| JEL: | B21 B41 |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aep:anales:4822 |
| By: | Zawojska, Aldona |
| Abstract: | The paper is of descriptive character and is based on literature review. It reviews the concept of homo economicus and homo politicus in the history of economic thought and tries to discover their characteristics in homo agricola. As demonstrated, one component of homo agricola can be of economic and another one of political nature. Those components can be separated or can be together. Agricultural economists, however, in their sophisticated mathematical models seem to reduce farmers’ behaviour to economic behaviour or rather to self-interested homo economicus. Institutional economics, social economics and socio-economics are closer to actual human nature, than homo economicus. The further research challenge before agricultural academia is to develop the model that will be able to fully explain the questions involving all human behaviour of homo agricola, that is farmer or rural man with set of different objectives. |
| Keywords: | Agricultural and Food Policy, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, Political Economy |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:iamo10:90835 |
| By: | Toporowski, Jan |
| Abstract: | This paper commemorates the 70th anniversary of Kalecki’s seminal lecture in Mexico on financing economic development. The first part outlines the theoretical model underlying Kalecki’s view of development financing. The second part summarizes the foundations of structuralist development economics in the Pre-bisch-Singer approach to international trade and importsubstitution development strategies. The third part examines the confrontation between Kalecki’s view of economic development strategy and the structuralist approach in the case of Cuba, highlighting the differences between both perspectives. The fourth part concludes with some reflections on today's relevance of structuralism and Kalecki’s view of economic development. |
| Keywords: | development financing; economic development; Kalecki; structuralism |
| JEL: | E11 E12 F14 O11 |
| Date: | 2026–01–05 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:130979 |
| By: | Shukla, Jigyashu; Stein, Christopher; Bush, John T.; Janardhanan, Niranjan S. |
| Abstract: | Moral incongruence—a misalignment between professional role expectations and personal moral values—is an important phenomenon in modern organizations. Though scholarly work has provided us with insights into broad forms of role incongruence, much less is known about the distinct characteristics of moral incongruence. Moreover, we lack understanding of how moral incongruence may shape employee attitudes and behaviors. Drawing on deonance theory and socio-cognitive theory, we develop a model explaining the role of moral incongruence in promoting employee prohibitive voice, withdrawal, and unethical role behavior through the mechanisms of moral outrage and moral disengagement. Examining potential boundary conditions, we also consider the roles of moral identity, self-interest, moral intensity, unethical climate, ethical leadership, and organizational identification. Given the ethical implications of moral incongruence and the significance of the phenomenon for organizations, this work has implications for both theory and practice. |
| Keywords: | moral disengagement; moral incongruence; moral outrage; unethical behavior |
| JEL: | J50 |
| Date: | 2024–06–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:121462 |
| By: | Rémy Herrera (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Zhiming Long (THU - Tsinghua University [Beijing]) |
| Abstract: | We analyze how the French left led by F. Mitterrand and the Socialist Party failed to "change the lives" of the French. We describe the difficulties encountered by the "relaunch" policy of 1981 and the change of course carried out, first with the inflection to austerity in 1982-1983, accompanied by devaluations of the franc, then the turn to neoliberalism and financial markets in 1984-1985, with the emphasis placed on business recovery and European integration. This betrayal of the left's program, leading to social inequalities and "new poverty, " partly explains the return of the right to power as early as 1986. |
| Keywords: | European integration, economic rigor, currency devaluation, financial markets, reformism, socialism, capitalism, France |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:cesptp:hal-05432514 |
| By: | Rosa Maria Marques (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo); Rémy Herrera (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Abstract: | We examine the gap between the place assigned to the state in the thinking of Mises and Hayek and the policies applied by neoliberalism, i.e. its size and degree of indebtedness at a time when the economy is coming under the control of interest-bearing capital. We show that the ideas of these authors, notably on the relationship between state and society, but also in defense of meritocracy as a means of access to goods and services, were mobilized to justify the centrality of this capital and its expansion into areas hitherto managed by the state (Part I). Then we shall see that, contrary to the rhetoric, the facts indicate that the state continues to expand under neoliberalism, even if its field of activity is narrowing in social matters (Part II). |
| Abstract: | Nous examinons ici l'écart existant entre la place attribuée à l'État dans les pensées de von Mises et d'Hayek et les politiques appliquées par le néolibéralisme, c'est-à-dire sa taille et son endettement à une époque où l'économie passe sous contrôle du capital porteur d'intérêts. Nous montrons que les idées de ces auteurs, notamment sur les rapports entre l'État et la société, mais aussi en défense de la méritocratie comme moyen d'accès aux biens et services, ont été mobilisées pour justifier la centralité de ce capital et son expansion dans des domaines jusque-là gérés par l'État (Partie I). Puis nous verrons que, contrairement aux discours, les faits indiquent que l'État continue à se développer dans le néolibéralisme, même si son champ d'activités se rétrécit en matière sociale (Partie II). |
| Keywords: | (von) Mises, Hayek, State, neoliberalism, social policies, social security, État, néolibéralisme, Sécurité sociale, politiques sociales |
| Date: | 2025 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:cesptp:hal-05433084 |
| By: | Alberto José Figueras (UNC-CIECS) |
| Abstract: | Con ciertas prevenciones, no exentas de temores, tengo la audacia de escribir estas líneas polémicas, controversiales, contra la corriente más habitual en que nos movemos: la búsqueda del crecimiento sin más. Este artículo aborda la cuestión del crecimiento económico como una meta en sí misma, desde una perspectiva al estilo de los Clásicos, esto es desde la “filosofía social”. La noción de crecimiento económico ilimitado ha dominado el discurso económico y político durante décadas. Sin embargo, este trabajo sostiene que esta perspectiva es muy cuestionable y debería ser reexaminada. Keynes se preguntaba, desde una visión ética, que si el crecimiento es un medio para conseguir un fin ¿Cuál es éste? ¿Y cuánto crecimiento es bastante? Se cuestiona la relación entre crecimiento económico y “calidad de vida” (bienestar humano), y se exploran las consecuencias sociales y ambientales de un modelo de desarrollo basado en el crecimiento ilimitado. Se señala la distinción entre la escasez relativa de Ricardo, salvable por el sistema de precios, y la escasez de Malthus o escasez absoluta, insuperable vía los precios relativos por la sencilla razón de que la naturaleza es finita. ¿Estaremos frente a la gran “trampa del progreso”? A través de un análisis crítico de los costos presentes en el proceso de crecimiento, se argumenta a favor de un modelo económico alternativo que hace uso del concepto de "estado estacionario selectivo". Este modelo busca conciliar el progreso social con la preservación de los recursos, al limitar el crecimiento económico en ciertas áreas y promoverlo en otras. Se exploran las implicaciones de esta propuesta y se discuten algunos aspectos que se encuentran en la historia del pensamiento así como el cruce de miradas con otras disciplinas. Si bien, esto más que una propuesta representa una protesta y una exhortación a la cautela respecto al rumbo que estamos siguiendo actualmente. |
| Keywords: | Estado Estacionario; Decrecimiento; .Desarrollo Sostenible; Cambio Cultural |
| JEL: | A13 B59 O10 P16 Z13 |
| Date: | 2026–01 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aoz:wpaper:382 |