[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 2022‒06‒13
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. De l’homo oeconomicus empathique à l’homo sympathicus Les apports de
la sympathie smithienne à la compréhension des comportements prosociaux
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p1> By Vanessa
Oltra <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vanessa%20Oltra>
2. Categorical versus graded beliefs
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p2> By Franz
Dietrich
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Franz%20Dietrich>
3. On the recent philosophy of decision theory
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p3> By Moscati,
Ivan <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Moscati,%20Ivan>
4. Good, Economic Welfare and the National Dividend—Pigou’s Welfare Triad
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p4> By Aldrich,
John <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Aldrich,%20John>
5. 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_-7246125966923069481_p5> By Julio
Elias <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Julio%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>
6. What have the 2021 Nobel laureates done for us?
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p6> By
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=J%C3%B6rn-Steffen%20Pischke>
7. Can a Catholic be Liberal? Roman Catholicism and Liberalism in a
Political Economy Perspective (1800–1970)
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p7> By Stefano
Solari
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Stefano%20Solari>
8. Gender Economics: Dead-Ends and New Opportunities
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p10> By Lundberg,
Shelly
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Lundberg,%20Shelly>
9. Morals as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p11> By Benjamin
Enke <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Benjamin%20Enke>
; Mattias Polborn
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mattias%20Polborn>; Alex
Wu <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alex%20Wu>
10. Remembering David Marsden
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p12> By David
Metcalf
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=David%20Metcalf>
11. A Theory of Hypocrisy
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p13> By Alice
Hallman
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alice%20Hallman>; Daniel
Spiro <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Daniel%20Spiro>
12. JHET Interviews: Anthony Waterman
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-7246125966923069481_p14> By Emmett,
Ross <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Emmett,%20Ross>
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1. De l’homo oeconomicus empathique à l’homo sympathicus Les apports de
la sympathie smithienne à la compréhension des comportements prosociaux
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03623609>
By: Vanessa Oltra
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vanessa%20Oltra> (BSE
- Bordeaux Sciences Economiques - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS -
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Abstract: Modern economic approaches of empathy and sympathy aim at
adding an altruistic dimension to the standard economic decision theory.
The purpose of the introduction of another regarding dimension, in addition
to the sole personal interest, is to try to explain prosocial preferences
or behaviours. In this article, we show how and why the economic literature
tries to grasp those concepts, but in a way that is very far from the
original Smithian sympathy developed in his Theory of Moral Sentiments
(TSM). We argue that, by remaining in the framework of methodological
individualism and instrumental rationality, economic approaches,
particularly in the field of experimental and behavioural economics, tend
to reduce and to intrumentalize the concepts of sympathy and empathy. Such
approaches seem to us not consistent with the Smithian social philosophy of
human nature and interpersonal relationships.
Keywords: Smithian sympathy,Empathy,Theory of moral
snetiments,behavioural economics
Date: 2022–03–29
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03623609&r=
2. Categorical versus graded beliefs
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:mse:cesdoc:21032r>
By: Franz Dietrich
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Franz%20Dietrich> (Centre
d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris School of Economics)
Abstract: This essay discusses the difficulty to reconcile two paradigms
about beliefs: the binary or categorical paradigm of yes/no beliefs and the
probabilistic paradigm of degrees of belief. The possibility for someone to
hold beliefs of both types simultaneously is challenged by the lottery
paradox, and more recently by a general impossibility theorem. The nature,
relevance, and implications of the tension are explained and assessed. A
more technical elaboration can be found in Dietrich and List (2018, 2021)s
Keywords: logic vs. rational choice theory; yes/no belief vs. subjective
probabilities; lottery paradox; general impossibility theorem
JEL: D80 D83
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=D80%20D83>
Date: 2021–11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mse:cesdoc:21032r&r=
3. On the recent philosophy of decision theory
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:115039>
By: Moscati, Ivan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Moscati,%20Ivan>
Abstract: In the philosophy of economics, the last fifteen years have
witnessed an intense discussion about the epistemological status of
economic models of decision making and their theoretical components, such
as the concept of preference. In this article I offer a selective review of
this discussion and indicate the directions in which I believe it should
evolve.
Keywords: behaviorism; choice; heuristics; mentalism; naturalism;
Preference; scientific realism and antirealism
JEL: J1 <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=J1>
Date: 2021–01–02
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:115039&r=
4. Good, Economic Welfare and the National Dividend—Pigou’s Welfare Triad
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:osfxxx:2vzrx>
By: Aldrich, John
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Aldrich,%20John>
Abstract: Pigou’s welfare treatises are exercises in practical ethics.
The exercises were founded on the ethical concepts of goodness and economic
welfare with the economist’s national dividend providing the practical
instrument for solving economic problems. This paper follows this triad
from its origins in Pigou’s earliest writings on ethics and economic
policy, into the welfare treatises and onto his last writings—a period of
around 50 years.
Date: 2022–04–09
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:2vzrx&r=
5. Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff
Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_9712>
By: Julio Elias
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Julio%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.
Keywords: price surges, price controls, preferences, morality, tradeoffs
JEL: C91 D63 D91 I11
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=C91%20D63%20D91%20I11>
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_9712&r=
6. What have the 2021 Nobel laureates done for us?
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:cep:cepcnp:621>
By: Jörn-Steffen Pischke
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=J%C3%B6rn-Steffen%20Pischke>
Abstract: The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to David
Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens. Jörn-Steffen Pischke explains how
the use of natural experiments in empirical economics, work in which they
were pioneers, has ushered in much progress in the analysis of causal
relationships, transforming the study of key policy challenges, including
education, immigration and the minimum wage.
Keywords: immigration, schools, social mobility, wages, policy, equality,
Date: 2022–02–22
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepcnp:621&r=
7. Can a Catholic be Liberal? Roman Catholicism and Liberalism in a
Political Economy Perspective (1800–1970)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03619130>
By: Stefano Solari
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Stefano%20Solari>
(Università
di Padova)
Abstract: The philosophy of the Enlightenment and political thought of
modernity found tough opposition in the Roman Catholic Church. Liberalism
was associated with Free Masons and revolutionary intent. Nonetheless,
liberalism and political economy stimulated some theoretical analysis and
specific theoretical positions in terms of social philosophy and social
economics by the Church. This paper presents an analysis of encyclical
letters and other papal documents, as well as the writings of other
Catholic scholars, to elaborate on the theoretical points used to contrast
liberalism. Compromises, as well as turning points in the evolution of the
Catholic position, are investigated. Lastly, the epistemological and
historical reasons for the affinity of Roman Catholicism with ethical
liberalism and the limits of this similarity are discussed. 1. Liberal and
Catholic, an Italian drama
Date: 2022–03–24
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-03619130&r=
8. Gender Economics: Dead-Ends and New Opportunities
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15217>
By: Lundberg, Shelly
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Lundberg,%20Shelly>
(University
of California, Santa Barbara)
Abstract: The economics literature on gender has expanded considerably
in recent years, fueled in part by new sources of data, including from
experimental studies of gender differences in preferences and other traits.
At the same time, economists have been developing more realistic models of
psychological and social influences on individual choices and the evolution
of culture and social norms. Despite these innovations much of the
economics of gender has been left behind, and still employs a reductive
framing in which gender gaps in economic outcomes are either due to
discrimination or to “choice.” I suggest here that the persistence of this
approach is due to several distinctive economic habits of mind—strong
priors driven by market bias and gender essentialism, a perspective that
views the default economic agent as male, and an oft-noted tendency to
avoid complex problems in favor of those that can be modeled simply. I also
suggest some paths forward.
Keywords: gender, culture, social norms, discrimination
JEL: J16 <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=J16>
Date: 2022–04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15217&r=
9. Morals as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30001>
By: Benjamin Enke
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Benjamin%20Enke>; Mattias
Polborn
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mattias%20Polborn>; Alex
Wu <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alex%20Wu>
Abstract: This paper develops a theory of political behavior in which
moral values are a luxury good: the relative weight that voters place on
moral rather than material considerations increases in income. This idea
both generates new testable implications and ties together a broad set of
empirical regularities about political polarization in the U.S. The model
predicts (i) the emergence of economically left-wing elites; (ii) that more
rich than poor people vote against their material interests; (iii) that
within-party heterogeneity is larger among Democrats than Republicans; and
(iv) widely-discussed realignment patterns: rich moral liberals who swing
Democrat, and poor moral conservatives who swing Republican. Assuming that
parties set policies by aggregating their supporters’ preferences, the
model also predicts increasing social party polarization over time, such
that poor moral conservatives swing Republican even though their relative
incomes decreased. We relate these predictions to known stylized facts, and
test our new predictions empirically.
JEL: D03 D72
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=D03%20D72>
Date: 2022–04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30001&r=
10. Remembering David Marsden
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:cep:cepcnp:625>
By: David Metcalf
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=David%20Metcalf>
Abstract: David Marsden, who passed away in August 2021, was involved in
CEP research for many years, working on employment and industrial
relations, youth employment and training, performance-related pay,
performance management and individual employee voice. His long-time
colleague David Metcalf recalls his broad-ranging contributions to academic
life.
Date: 2022–02–22
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepcnp:625&r=
11. A Theory of Hypocrisy
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_9734>
By: Alice Hallman
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alice%20Hallman>; Daniel
Spiro <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Daniel%20Spiro>
Abstract: This paper explains the occurrence of hypocrisy – when the
by-society most despised types pretend to be the most revered types.
Real-world phenomena include pedophile priests, sex-offender feminists and
seemingly very busy dispensable office workers. Building on the signaling
framework of Bernheim (1994) – where payoffs consist of an intrinsic cost
of falsifying yourself, and a concern for social esteem – we show
conditions for emergence of hypocrisy in equilibrium. In such equilibria
the most despised types along with the most revered types behave
normatively, others do not. Thus, in equilibrium there are “rumors” about
those acting the most normatively – society infers that they are either
truly normative or despised, but one cannot know who is who. This is to be
distinguished from “conformity” – where the most normative and
almost-normative types fully follow a social norm. Whether conformity or
hypocrisy will arise in equilibrium depends on the cost of falsification,
and the number of hypocrites depends on the weight of social esteem. Our
theory thus shows how cultural parameters map into equilibrium culture.
Keywords: social esteem, hypocrisy, conformity, social norm
JEL: D70 D91 Z10
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=D70%20D91%20Z10>
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_9734&r=
12. JHET Interviews: Anthony Waterman
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:osfxxx:m7hds>
By: Emmett, Ross
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Emmett,%20Ross>
Abstract: JHET Interviews: Anthony Waterman, by Ross B. Emmett
Date: 2022–04–09
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:m7hds&r=
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