[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 2022‒11‒14
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. ''Non-Competing Social Groups''? The Long Debate on Social Mobility
in Italy (c. 1890-1960)
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-6086830324995291479_p1> By Giacomo
Gabbuti
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Giacomo%20Gabbuti>
2. The New Speak and Economic Theory or How We Are Being Talked To
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-6086830324995291479_p2> By Jean-Paul
Fitoussi
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jean-Paul%20Fitoussi>
3. A Survey of German Economics
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-6086830324995291479_p3> By Rommel,
Florian
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Rommel,%20Florian>;
Urban,
Janina
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Urban,%20Janina>
4. A Critical Note on Ricardo's Views on Absolute and Relative Value in
terms of Labor Values.
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-6086830324995291479_p4> By Miguel
D. Ramirez
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Miguel%20D.%20Ramirez>
5. Not part of the plan? Women, state feminism and Indian socialism in
the Nehru years
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-6086830324995291479_p5> By Sherman,
Taylor C.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sherman,%20Taylor%20C.>
6. Measuring freedom: towards a solution to John Rawls’ indexing problem
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-6086830324995291479_p6> By Ferretti,
Thomas
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ferretti,%20Thomas>
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1. ''Non-Competing Social Groups''? The Long Debate on Social Mobility
in Italy (c. 1890-1960)
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ssa:lemwps:2022/32>
By: Giacomo Gabbuti
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Giacomo%20Gabbuti>
Abstract: In the light of the recent literature on the intellectual
history of inequality, this paper offers the first survey and a tentative
classification of the Italian literature addressing issues related to
social mobility, from late-19th century to the 'Economic Miracle' of the
1950s. During these decades, the foremost Italian economists and
statisticians (among others, Pareto, Gini, Einaudi and Pantaleoni) worked
on issues, from the role of inheritance to the intergenerational
transmission of status, which are very related to the modern understanding
of social mobility. While reflecting the evolution and debates in Italian
society, these authors participated to a broader international debate, that
should lead us to reconsider the lack of interest for inequality by
economists in this period.
Keywords: Social mobility; equality of opportunity; inheritance; Italian
economic thought.
Date: 2022–10–17
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ssa:lemwps:2022/32&r=hpe
2. The New Speak and Economic Theory or How We Are Being Talked To
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpspec:hal-03812818>
By: Jean-Paul Fitoussi
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jean-Paul%20Fitoussi>
(ECON
- Département d'économie (Sciences Po) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS -
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LUISS - Libera Università
Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli [Roma])
Abstract: This article seeks to show how the impoverishment of language
has changed the course of the evolution of economic theory, much as in 1984
the Newspeak changed the order of things and the course of the political
regime. At the origin of such an evolution was the stratagem to act as if
neoclassical theory was subsequent to Keynesian theory. The inversion of
the time arrow had far reaching consequences on the development of
economics. In great part the development of a science depends of the
scholars who practice it and of its teaching to the new researchers who
will further develop it. Both depend on the history of thought. The
consequences on economic policies have been major, especially in Europe. By
cancelling most of the Keynesian concepts from the Newspeak dictionary, the
relative weights of the market and the state were changed, which could only
lead to a preference for liberal, market- oriented, policies.
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpspec:hal-03812818&r=hpe
3. A Survey of German Economics
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:vfsc22:264131>
By: Rommel, Florian
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Rommel,%20Florian>;
Urban,
Janina
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Urban,%20Janina>
JEL: A11 A14 A22 A23 B41 A22 I23 J44
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A11%20A14%20A22%20A23%20B41%20A22%20I23%20J44>
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:vfsc22:264131&r=hpe
4. A Critical Note on Ricardo's Views on Absolute and Relative Value in
terms of Labor Values.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:tri:wpaper:2202>
By: Miguel D. Ramirez
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Miguel%20D.%20Ramirez>
(Department
of Economics, Trinity College)
Keywords: Absolute value;competitive capitalist economy;invariable
measure of value;labor theory of value;national product;natural
prices;relative value.
JEL: B10 B12 B24
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B10%20B12%20B24>
Date: 2022–10
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tri:wpaper:2202&r=hpe
5. Not part of the plan? Women, state feminism and Indian socialism in
the Nehru years <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:107460>
By: Sherman, Taylor C.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sherman,%20Taylor%20C.>
Abstract: The 1950s are often derided in the scholarship as a period of
welfarist policies which reinforced women’s role in the family and
entrenched women’s economic dependence. This paper examines the Central
Social Welfare Board, and in particular its Welfare Extension Projects, to
provide a new characterisation of the approach to women’s issues during the
period. It argues that the Central Social Welfare Board, with its unique
administrative structure, its preference for voluntary activity, and its
adherence to persuasion as a mode of action reflected many of the
characteristics of Indian socialism of the time. It also sketches, from
this angle, a partial picture of state feminism in India. In the Central
Social Welfare Board, state feminism was concerned with the gradual
transformation of women and a radical, if short-lived, makeover of the
state.
Keywords: state feminism; socialism; self-help; welfare-state; everyday
state; community development; decentralisation; postcolonial nationalism;
Durgabai Deshmukh
JEL: B14 B24 P2 P3
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=B14%20B24%20P2%20P3>
Date: 2021
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:107460&r=hpe
6. Measuring freedom: towards a solution to John Rawls’ indexing problem
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ehl:lserod:116861>
By: Ferretti, Thomas
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ferretti,%20Thomas>
Abstract: Suppose a principle of distributive justice states that social
institutions should maximize the freedom of the least well-off.
Understanding how to do so would be easier if freedom only depended on one
good, like income. If it depends instead on a composite index of social
primary goods, a question arises: Which combination of social primary goods
can maximize the freedom of the least well-off? This is John Rawls’
indexing problem. Solving it requires addressing two related problems. The
first consists in evaluating, in theory, under which conditions it is
acceptable to substitute goods, that is, their substitution rates. The
second consists in evaluating which acceptable substitutions are feasible
in practice. This article proposes a framework to think clearly about this
indexing problem within a Rawlsian, resourcist conception of distributive
justice. I conclude by discussing a path towards solving the indexing
problem. While further empirical exploration is needed, plausible
assumptions about social regimes suggest that maximizing the freedom of the
least well-off is likely to require giving them access to a social position
with a balanced combination of social primary goods.
Keywords: freedom; indexing problem; John Rawls; social primary goods;
substitution
JEL: A13 D30 D63 I32 J81 P51
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A13%20D30%20D63%20I32%20J81%20P51>
Date: 2022–08–05
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:116861&r=hpe
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