[Selections by Humberto Barreto for SHOE list.]
nep-hpe <http://nep.repec.org/nep-hpe.html> New Economics Papers
<http://nep.repec.org/> on History and Philosophy of Economics
Issue of 2022‒05‒23
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. The Authors of Economics Journals Revisited: Evidence from a
Large-Scale Replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p1> By Matthias
Aistleitner
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Matthias%20Aistleitner>
; Jakob Kapeller
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jakob%20Kapeller>;
Dominik
Kronberger
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Dominik%20Kronberger>
2. Policy Analysis beyond Development Economics: Questions for Labour
Policy Analysis
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p2> By Veena
Naregal
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Veena%20Naregal>; Dezy
Kumari <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Dezy%20Kumari>
3. Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff
Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p3> By Julio J.
Elias
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Julio%20J.%20Elias>;
Nicola
Lacetera
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Nicola%20Lacetera>; Mario
Macis <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mario%20Macis>
4. Revisiting Reports of the First National Labour Commission & the
Second National Labour Commission: Labour Policy Analysis
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p4> By Dezy
Kumari <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Dezy%20Kumari>
; Veena Naregal
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Veena%20Naregal>
5. Marx, Schumpeter et les classes sociales
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p5> By Fabien
Dannequin
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fabien%20Dannequin>;
Fabien
Tarrit
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fabien%20Tarrit>
6. Who is Neoliberal? Durkheimian Individualism and Support for Market
Mechanisms <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p6>
By Augustin Landier
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Augustin%20Landier>;
David
Thesmar
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=David%20Thesmar>
7. Does the Labour Theory of Value Explain Economic Growth? A Modern
Classical View
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p7> By Chatzarakis,
Nikolaos
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Chatzarakis,%20Nikolaos>
; Tsaliki, Persefoni
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Tsaliki,%20Persefoni>
; Tsoulfidis, Lefteris
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Tsoulfidis,%20Lefteris>
8. "A politically evasive monetary theory should not be the basis for a
progressive movement": Eine kritische Betrachtung der modern monetary theory
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p8> By Heise,
Arne <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Heise,%20Arne>
9. Turning in the widening gyre: monetary and fiscal policy in interwar
Britain <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p10>
By Ronicle,
David
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ronicle,%20David>
10. The Economics of Fertility: A New Era
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p11> By Matthias
Doepke
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Matthias%20Doepke>; Anne
Hannusch
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Anne%20Hannusch>; Fabian
Kindermann
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fabian%20Kindermann>;
Michèle
Tertilt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mich%C3%A8le%20Tertilt>
11. The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2144841536851866581_p12> By Douglas
A. Irwin
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Douglas%20A.%20Irwin>
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1. The Authors of Economics Journals Revisited: Evidence from a
Large-Scale Replication of Hodgson and Rothman (1999)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ico:wpaper:136>
By: Matthias Aistleitner
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Matthias%20Aistleitner>
(Institute
for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria); Jakob Kapeller
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jakob%20Kapeller>
(Institute
for Socio-Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Institute for
Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria); Dominik Kronberger
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Dominik%20Kronberger>
(Institute
for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria)
Abstract: In this paper, we present results from of a large-scale
replication of Hodgson and Rothman's (1999) seminal analysis of the
institutional and geographical concentration of authors publishing in top
economic journals. We analyze bibliometric data of more than 49.000
articles published in a set of 30 highly influential economic journals
between 1990 and 2018. Based on a random sample of 3.253 authors, we
further analyze the PhD-granting institutions of the authors under study to
better scrutinize the claim of an institutional oligopoly. The findings
confirm the long-term persistence of strong oligopolistic structures in
terms of both, author affiliations as well as PhD-granting institutions.
Keywords: sociology of economics, bibliometrics, concentration in
science, replication study
Date: 2022–05
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ico:wpaper:136&r=
2. Policy Analysis beyond Development Economics: Questions for Labour
Policy Analysis <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:awe:wpaper:422>
By: Veena Naregal
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Veena%20Naregal>; Dezy
Kumari <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Dezy%20Kumari>
(Institute
of Economic Growth, Delhi)
Abstract: From 1940s onwards and well into the 1970s, labour policy had
revolved around principles of tripartism and protection of labour rights;
in contrast, from the late 1980s onwards, policy discourse sought to
legitmise a shift from protection of labour rights to a deregulation of
labour laws. Major shifts in labour policy agendas were key to changes
wrought by economic reforms of the early 1990s. Part I raises questions
about how we may map the influence of and continuities in policy agendas
and contexts. Is policy influence synonymous with implementation? Deviating
from the dominant view within development economics, we argue that policy
frameworks can have an enduring influence and impact quite apart from
whether they are implemented. Additionally, this part also offers an
account of tripartism as a founding structural motif in sustaining labour
market dualism and determining the course of labour policy agendas in
post-colonial India. Part II offers a historically oriented focus on two
key policy reviews of this period between 1966 to 2006, namely reports of
first National Commission of Labour [1966-1969] and the Second National
Commission of Labour [1999-2002] . The records and reports of both these
Commissions are analysed here in conjunction with key parliamentary and
political debates of the period pertaining to labour policy.
Keywords: Policy analysis, Labour market dualism, Liberalisation, Labour
market reforms, Politics of knowledge
Date: 2021–03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:awe:wpaper:422&r=
3. Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff
Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29963>
By: Julio J. Elias
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Julio%20J.%20Elias>;
Nicola
Lacetera
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Nicola%20Lacetera>; Mario
Macis <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mario%20Macis>
Abstract: Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests
for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause
inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason
about sudden price increases for different products under different policy
regimes, we conduct a survey experiment with Canadian and U.S. residents.
Econometric and textual analyses indicate that prices are not seen just as
signals of scarcity; they cause widespread opposition and strong and
polarized moral reactions. However, acceptance of unregulated prices is
higher when potential economic tradeoffs between unregulated and controlled
prices are salient and when higher production costs contribute to the price
increases. The salience of tradeoffs also reduces the polarization of moral
judgments between supporters and opponents of unregulated pricing. In part,
the acceptance of free price adjustments is driven by people’s overall
attitudes about the function of markets and the government in society.
These findings are corroborated by a donation experiment, and they suggest
that awareness of the causes and potential consequences of price increases
may induce less extreme views about the role of market institutions in
governing the economy.
JEL: C83 C91 D63 D91 I11 L50 Z1
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=C83%20C91%20D63%20D91%20I11%20L50%20Z1>
Date: 2022–04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29963&r=
4. Revisiting Reports of the First National Labour Commission & the
Second National Labour Commission: Labour Policy Analysis
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:awe:wpaper:423>
By: Dezy Kumari
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Dezy%20Kumari>; Veena
Naregal
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Veena%20Naregal>
(Institute
of Economic Growth, Delhi)
Abstract: From 1940s onwards and well into the 1970s, labour policy had
revolved around principles of tripartism and protection of labour rights;
in contrast, from the late 1980s onwards, policy discourse sought to
legitmise a shift from protection of labour rights to a deregulation of
labour laws. Major shifts in labour policy agendas were key to changes
wrought by economic reforms of the early 1990s. Part I raises questions
about how we may map the influence of and continuities in policy agendas
and contexts. Is policy influence synonymous with implementation? Deviating
from the dominant view within development economics, we argue that policy
frameworks can have an enduring influence and impact quite apart from
whether they are implemented. Additionally, this part also offers an
account of tripartism as a founding structural motif in sustaining labour
market dualism and determining the course of labour policy agendas in
post-colonial India. Part II offers a historically oriented focus on two
key policy reviews of this period between 1966 to 2006, namely reports of
first National Commission of Labour [1966-1969] and the Second National
Commission of Labour [1999-2002] . The records and reports of both these
Commissions are analysed here in conjunction with key parliamentary and
political debates of the period pertaining to labour policy.
Keywords: Policy analysis, Labour market dualism, Liberalisation, Labour
market reforms, Politics of knowledge
Date: 2021–03
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:awe:wpaper:423&r=
5. Marx, Schumpeter et les classes sociales
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03633005>
By: Fabien Dannequin
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fabien%20Dannequin>
(REGARDS
- Recherches en Économie Gestion AgroRessources Durabilité Santé- EA 6292 -
MSH-URCA - Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne - URCA -
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne - URCA - Université de Reims
Champagne-Ardenne); Fabien Tarrit
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fabien%20Tarrit> (REGARDS
- Recherches en Économie Gestion AgroRessources Durabilité Santé- EA 6292 -
MSH-URCA - Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne - URCA -
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne - URCA - Université de Reims
Champagne-Ardenne)
Abstract: This paper proposes a cross-analysis the contributions of Karl
Marx and of Joseph Alois Schumpeter on social classes. It discusses their
discrepancies on two issues, the former helping to elaborate on the latter.
Both authors admit the existence of social classes on the basis of
hierarchy and of discipline. For Marx, they rely on the conflict, which can
bring changes that aim to abolish the class hierarchy. As such, it needs an
consciousness for facilitating the shift from an objective class in itself
to a subjective class for itself. For Schumpeter, a significant degree of
discipline is a condition to ensure the progress related to capitalism.
Therefore, while Marx conceives capitalism as a transitional mode of social
organization, which sows the seeds of its own disequilibrium and demise,
Schumpeter regrets the planned end of capitalism, with the decline of
innovation and then of progress, through bureaucratization.
Abstract: Cet article présente une analyse croisée des contributions de
Karl Marx et de Joseph Alois Schumpeter sur la question des classes
sociales. Les divergences que nous soulevons portent sur deux questions, la
première nourrissant la seconde. Les deux auteurs reconnaissent tous deux
l'existence de classes sociales fondées sur la hiérarchie et la discipline.
Marx les conçoit sous l'angle du conflit porteur d'un changement visant à
abolir la hiérarchie de classe, et de la sorte l'inscrit dans la nécessité
d'une prise de conscience facilitant le passage d'une classe en soi
objective à une classe pour soi subjective. De son côté, Schumpeter
préconise un degré significatif de discipline propre à assurer le progrès
dont est porteur le capitalisme. Ainsi, alors que Marx conçoit le
capitalisme comme un mode transitoire d'organisation sociale qui porte les
germes de son déséquilibre et de sa disparition, c'est sous l'angle du
déclin, via sa bureaucratisation, de l'innovation et donc du progrès, que
Schumpeter déplore la fin programmée du capitalisme.
Keywords: Marx Karl,Schumpeter,Classes sociales
Date: 2022–03–23
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03633005&r=
6. Who is Neoliberal? Durkheimian Individualism and Support for Market
Mechanisms <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29942>
By: Augustin Landier
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Augustin%20Landier>;
David
Thesmar
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=David%20Thesmar>
Abstract: This paper investigates the drivers of support for market
mechanisms (competition and optimizing behavior by agents). We elicit such
attitudes using concrete and simplified situations where respondents face a
tradeoff between an economically efficient situation and a pro-social
objective. We find that support for deviation from efficient solutions
achieved through market mechanism is strongly correlated with moral values
as defined by Haidt (2013): care, fairness, loyalty and authority. While
the traditional left-right divide spans some of this variation, an even
bigger role is played by what we label “individualism”, the average support
for all 4 values, a moral stance orthogonal to the left-right divide. We
ground this measure of individualism in the sociology of Emile Durkheim.
JEL: A11 A13
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A11%20A13>
Date: 2022–04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29942&r=
7. Does the Labour Theory of Value Explain Economic Growth? A Modern
Classical View <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:112824>
By: Chatzarakis, Nikolaos
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Chatzarakis,%20Nikolaos>
; Tsaliki, Persefoni
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Tsaliki,%20Persefoni>
; Tsoulfidis, Lefteris
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Tsoulfidis,%20Lefteris>
Abstract: The labour theory of value (LTV) is the cornerstone of the
classical and Marxian political economy for it explains the creation and
valuation of wealth in capitalist societies and it remains the chief
analytical tool in investigating economic phenomena. In this respect
macroscopic phenomena, which include many distinct production processes
evolving over long gestation periods, conceal the transformation of labour
values into their monetary expression (prices). Consequently, the use of
the LTV on a grand and dynamic scale is usually considered inapplicable in
the construction of macroeconomic models. The classical/Marxian analysis is
conducted through either multi-dimensional multi-sectoral models or the
solution of the summation problem of heterogeneous commodities. However,
many studies have corroborated the dynamic aspects of the LTV and probed
for a reduction in the dimensionality of macroeconomic models. In this
paper, on the one hand, we restate the dynamic aspects of the LTV over time
and, on the other hand, ascertain its utility as a long-run macroeconomic
tool. The way to proceed is to model the divergence of actual prices and
quantities of commodities from their equilibria in a multi-sectoral economy
and establish that the long-run behaviour of the system mirrors the
long-run movement of the labour values.
Keywords: labour theory of value; heterodox microeconomics;
micro-founding of economic growth; dynamic input-output analysis
JEL: B51 C61 D46 D57 E32
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B51%20C61%20D46%20D57%20E32>
Date: 2022–04–21
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:112824&r=
8. "A politically evasive monetary theory should not be the basis for a
progressive movement": Eine kritische Betrachtung der modern monetary theory
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:cessdp:93>
By: Heise, Arne
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Heise,%20Arne>
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:cessdp:93&r=
9. Turning in the widening gyre: monetary and fiscal policy in interwar
Britain <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:boe:boeewp:0968>
By: Ronicle, David
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ronicle,%20David> (Bank
of England and International Monetary Fund)
Abstract: This paper brings together modern empirical techniques, a
sign-restricted structural vector autoregression, with contemporary high
frequency data to answer an old question – what role did macroeconomic
policy play in Britain’s high unemployment and deflation in the years 1919
to 1938. Its specific innovation is to draw on a previously little-used
weekly publication of public finance statistics, allowing the roles of
taxation, public spending and monetary policy to be assessed side-by-side
in a coherent framework. In a period of particularly unsettled policy the
paper finds that policy shocks, both monetary and fiscal, made a material
contribution to variation in prices and unemployment – and these played a
central role in the two great recessions of the period, modern Britain’s
most severe. Other policy choices could have delivered better outcomes for
prices and unemployment – but these would have required making different
choices in the face of conflicting objectives and some sharp trade-offs.
Keywords: Monetary policy; fiscal Policy; economic history; Great
Depression
JEL: E52 E62 N14
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=E52%20E62%20N14>
Date: 2022–04–13
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:boe:boeewp:0968&r=
10. The Economics of Fertility: A New Era
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:bon:boncrc:crctr224_2022_347>
By: Matthias Doepke
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Matthias%20Doepke>; Anne
Hannusch
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Anne%20Hannusch>; Fabian
Kindermann
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fabian%20Kindermann>;
Michèle
Tertilt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mich%C3%A8le%20Tertilt>
Abstract: In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of
fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of fertility
choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the
past, held both across countries and across families in a given country: a
negative relationship between income and fertility, and another negative
re- lationship between women’s labor force participation and fertility. The
economics of fertility has entered a new era because these stylized facts
no longer universally hold. In high-income countries, the income-fertility
relationship has flattened and in some cases reversed, and the
cross-country relationship between women’s labor force participation and
fertility is now positive. We summarize these new facts and describe new
models that are designed to address them. The common theme of these new
theories is that they view factors that determine the compatibility of
women’s career and family goals as key drivers of fertility. We highlight
four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family
policy, cooperative fathers, favorable social norms, and flexible labor
markets. We also review other recent developments in the literature, and we
point out promising new directions for future research on the economics of
fertility.
Keywords: Fertility, Family Economics, Marital Bargaining
JEL: D13 J13 J16
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=D13%20J13%20J16>
Date: 2022–05
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:bon:boncrc:crctr224_2022_347&r=
11. The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29973>
By: Douglas A. Irwin
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Douglas%20A.%20Irwin>
Abstract: The decade from 1985 to 1995 was an unprecedented period of
declining barriers to global trade. The reform wave was especially
pronounced in developing countries where overvalued currencies were
eliminated, quantitative import restrictions dismantled, and import tariffs
reduced. What accounts for this remarkable transformation in policy? This
paper focuses on how many of these restrictions were imposed for balance of
payments purposes. As the benefits of managing payments imbalances through
exchange rate adjustments rather than import controls came to be
understood, economists in high-ranking government positions had the
opportunity to shift policy in this direction. Perhaps surprisingly,
special interests played little role in fostering the move to more open
markets.
JEL: B17 F13 F31
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B17%20F13%20F31>
Date: 2022–04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:29973&r=
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