[Selections by Humberto Barreto for SHOE list.]
nep-hpe <https://nep.repec.org/nep-hpe.html> New Economics Papers
<https://nep.repec.org/> on History and Philosophy of Economics
Issue of 2023‒10‒23
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>,
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM IN LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL THOUGHT
AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2349193934141743933_p1> By Budraitskis,
Ilya (Будрайтскис, Илья)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Budraitskis,%20Ilya%20(%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81,%20%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F)>
; Vanunts, Georgy (Ванунц, Георгий)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vanunts,%20Georgy%20(%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%86,%20%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9)>
; Yegorova, A. (Егорова, А.)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Yegorova,%20A.%20(%D0%95%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0,%20%D0%90.)>
; Zapolskaya, A. (Запольская, А.)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Zapolskaya,%20A.%20(%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F,%20%D0%90.)>
; Yudin, Grigory (Юдин, Григорий)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Yudin,%20Grigory%20(%D0%AE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD,%20%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9)>
2. Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist
Movement <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2349193934141743933_p2>
By Valentín
Figueroa
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Valent%C3%ADn%20Figueroa>
; Vasiliki Fouka
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vasiliki%20Fouka>
3. Economics and Nature: A Long-Neglected Combination
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2349193934141743933_p3> By Anna
Pettini
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Anna%20Pettini>
4. Repoliticising the Future of Work: Automation and the End of
Techno-Optimism
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2349193934141743933_p4> By Solange
Vivienne Manche
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Solange%20Vivienne%20Manche>
; Juan Sebastian Carbonell
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Juan%20Sebastian%20Carbonell>
5. The Problem of Domestic Work at the International Labour Organization
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2349193934141743933_p5> By Chee,
Liberty
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Chee,%20Liberty>
6. Moral Boundaries
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2349193934141743933_p6> By Benjamin
Enke <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Benjamin%20Enke>
7. What is the social and solidarity economy? A review of concepts
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2349193934141743933_p7> By OECD
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=OECD>
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1. THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM IN LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL THOUGHT
AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:rnp:wpaper:w20220195>
By: Budraitskis, Ilya (Будрайтскис, Илья)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Budraitskis,%20Ilya%20(%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81,%20%D0%98%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F)>
(The
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public
Administration); Vanunts, Georgy (Ванунц, Георгий)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vanunts,%20Georgy%20(%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%86,%20%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9)>
(The
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public
Administration); Yegorova, A. (Егорова, А.)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Yegorova,%20A.%20(%D0%95%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0,%20%D0%90.)>
(The
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public
Administration); Zapolskaya, A. (Запольская, А.)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Zapolskaya,%20A.%20(%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F,%20%D0%90.)>
(The
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public
Administration); Yudin, Grigory (Юдин, Григорий)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Yudin,%20Grigory%20(%D0%AE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD,%20%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9)>
(The
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration)
Abstract: The subject of our research is the evolution of the concept of
"freedom" in liberal political thought at the end of the 19th century –
first half of the 20th century, as well as its influence on further
academic discussions of "freedom" as a concept. Our main sources,
therefore, are the texts by liberal, conservative as well as left-wing
theorists of the period in question (Isaiah Berlin, Carl Schmitt, Edmund
Burke, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, Walter Benjamin) and their
interconnections with the subsequent development of the liberal tradition
(Jurgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt) as well as its critics (Giorgio Agamben,
Judith Butler). The aim of the project was to confirm our basic hypothesis
that the key transformation of the concept of "freedom" in political and
social thought takes place at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries –
this was the moment when liberal doctrines took shape, in which collective
freedom gave way to individual freedom. Thus, our project had three
objectives: 1) to trace the transformation of the notion of freedom in the
liberal tradition of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 2)
to identify lines of criticism of individual freedom in conservative and
leftist thought of the early twentieth century, 3) to analyze the current
crisis of liberalism related to the non-democratic basis of actual
political representation and to show how the notion of freedom formed in
early twentieth century liberal theory has affected the institutions of
modern liberal democracy. The relevance of the research is determined by
the deepening crisis of liberalism in our days and the pursuit of
programmatic alternatives to liberal democratic institutions. Through an
analysis based primarily on the "history of concepts" method, we have
described the contradictions in liberal thought associated with the form of
the democratic process and its elitist content. The scientific novelty of
this study lies in the fact that, for the first time in domestic political
theory, an attempt was made to examine the key category of "freedom" in the
liberal tradition in a broad historical and theoretical context, which made
it possible to identify its contemporary understanding. We conclude that
this anti-democratic and anti-egalitarian element of the liberal tradition
has common origins with the conservative critique of democracy of the early
to mid-20th century. Since the Russian Federation's policy documents (in
particular, the National Security Strategy) pay considerable attention to
rethinking the relationship between individual freedoms and securing the
collective freedom of the Russian people in the face of external
challenges, the practical recommendation of the study is to further develop
an original historical and theoretical concept of freedom that meets the
contemporary conditions of our country.
Keywords: democracy, conservatism, politics, freedom, republicanism,
liberalism, neoliberalism, political theology, political subject, political
sphere
JEL: B10 B30
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B10%20B30>
Date: 2021–11–12
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:rnp:wpaper:w20220195&r=hpe
2. Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist
Movement <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_10662>
By: Valentín Figueroa
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Valent%C3%ADn%20Figueroa>
; Vasiliki Fouka
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vasiliki%20Fouka>
Abstract: What drives change in a society’s values? From Marx to
modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between
structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a
society’s dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we
examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late
18th and early 19th century Britain, one of history’s most well-known
campaigns for social change, which coincided temporally with the Industrial
Revolution. We argue that structural transformation alters the distribution
of power in society and enables groups with distinct values and weak
economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on
anti-slavery petitions, membership in abolitionist groups, MP voting
behavior in Parliament and economic activity, we show that support for
abolition was strongly connected to manufacturing at the aggregate and
individual level. We rely on biographical data and the analysis of
parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less
reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a universalist
worldview that distinguished them from established elites. Together, our
findings suggest that both values and economic interest play a role in
driving social change.
Keywords: values, structural transformation, social change, slavery,
abolition
JEL: A13 N63 O14 P16 Z10
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A13%20N63%20O14%20P16%20Z10>
Date: 2023
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_10662&r=hpe
3. Economics and Nature: A Long-Neglected Combination
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_10631>
By: Anna Pettini
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Anna%20Pettini>
Abstract: The intersection of Economics and Nature has long been
overlooked, but recent events have shed new light on their
interconnectedness. This paper explores this relationship, focusing on the
impact of economic cycles and the role of GDP as a measure of economic
success. The paper highlights the historically dominant role of GDP,
tracing its origins from Simon Kuznets’ report in the 1930s to the present.
It considers the rise of quantitative growth as a paradigm and its
influence on economic policy, including the neo-liberal perspective that
prioritises private market initiative. The paper concludes by exploring the
potential for change in the aftermath of the syndemic crisis, and argues
for a move away from GDP-centred measurements towards indicators that are
fully researched and ready to use.
Keywords: critical deceleration theory, nature, GDP, beyond-GDP
indicators
JEL: I31 O10 D00
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=I31%20O10%20D00>
Date: 2023
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_10631&r=hpe
4. Repoliticising the Future of Work: Automation and the End of
Techno-Optimism
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04112195>
By: Solange Vivienne Manche
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Solange%20Vivienne%20Manche>
(CAM
- University of Cambridge [UK]); Juan Sebastian Carbonell
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Juan%20Sebastian%20Carbonell>
(IDHES
- Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société -
UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8
Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - UEVE - Université
d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- ENS Paris Saclay - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay)
Abstract: This review article of Aaron Benanav's Automation and the
Future of Work (2020) and Jason Smith's Smart Machines and Service Work
(2020) reads both works as an effort to repoliticise the question of
unemployment, which has too often been ascribed to technological
innovation, especially by proponents of automation theory. It places their
works within current debates surrounding the question of automation and its
political reverberations across the political spectrum. In the end, we show
that the shortcomings of automation discourse reside in their economic
analyses of the future of work and employment and that automation theorists
encourage a depoliticisation of the question of employment through
technocracy, while Benanav and Smith open the way for thinking about the
future of work as a collective and social endeavour.
Keywords: Automation, future of work, precarity, sociologie, stagnation,
technological unemployment
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04112195&r=hpe
5. The Problem of Domestic Work at the International Labour Organization
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:socarx:bfm3s>
By: Chee, Liberty
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Chee,%20Liberty> (Ca'
Foscari University of Venice)
Abstract: This paper examines the processes of attempting to set
standards for one of the largest labour sectors in the world that employs
women. It demonstrates how the International Labour Organization is a
boundary organisation that co-produces hybrid knowledge about domestic work
through the iterative engagement of experts, practitioners and laypersons.
The paper offers problematisation as an approach with which to understand
this process of knowledge production. I deploy problematisation in two
senses - as a mode of analysis (an activity, method) and an object of
inquiry (a problem). To problematise is to make something recognisable,
thinkable and actionable. Problematisation is the constitution of an object
of thought (here “domestic work”) through discourse (logos), techniques
(techne) and action (praxis). Concretely, this means examining the truth
claims made about what domestic work, the tools or instruments used to
fortify these claims and calls for action. In its second sense, the
problematisation of domestic work shows its evolution from a non-problem,
to a problem of the law, and then of the economy.
Date: 2023–09–28
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:bfm3s&r=hpe
6. Moral Boundaries <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31701>
By: Benjamin Enke
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Benjamin%20Enke>
Abstract: This article reviews the growing economics literature that
studies the politico-economic impacts of heterogeneity in moral boundaries
across individuals and cultures. The so-called
universalism-versus-particularism cleavage has emerged as a main organizing
principle behind various salient features of contemporary political
competition, including individual-level and spatial variation in voting,
the realignment of rich liberals and poor conservatives, the internal
structure of ideology, and the moral content of political messaging. A
recurring theme is that the explanatory power of universalism for left-wing
policy views and voting is considerably larger than that of traditional
economic variables. Looking at the origins of heterogeneity in
universalism, an emerging consensus is that cross-group variation is partly
economically functional and reflects that morality evolved to support
cooperation in economic production. This insight organizes much work on how
kinship systems, market exposure, political institutions and ecology have
shaped universalism through their impacts on the relative benefits of
localized and impersonal interactions.
JEL: D01 D03 D70
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=D01%20D03%20D70>
Date: 2023–09
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31701&r=hpe
7. What is the social and solidarity economy? A review of concepts
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:cfeaaa:2023/13-en>
By: OECD <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=OECD>
Abstract: Produced as part of the OECD Global Action on Promoting Social
and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems, funded by the European Union’s Foreign
Partnership Instrument, this paper provides a framework to clarify the core
notions of the social and solidarity economy, along with social economy,
social enterprise, social innovation and other related notions. The
objective is to explain what they are and understand how these notions have
evolved in recent decades. It also aims to capture and document the great
diversity within social and solidarity economy organisations in terms of
purposes, legal entities, business models and practices to help better
characterise the “population” of social and solidarity economy entities.
Keywords: conceptual framework, cooperative, local development, non
profit, social and solidarity economy, social economy, social enterprise,
social entrepreneurship, social innovation
JEL: L33 L31
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=L33%20L31>
Date: 2023–09–28
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:oec:cfeaaa:2023/13-en&r=hpe
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