[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 2023‒12‒18
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>,
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. Symposium on Elisabeth Popp Berman's Thinking Like an Economist. How
Efficiency Replace Equality in U.S. Public Policy
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-2864571867056967235_p1> By Cleo
Chassonnery-Zaigouche
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Cleo%20Chassonnery-Zaigouche>
; Aurélien Goutsmedt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Aur%C3%A9lien%20Goutsmedt>
2. Review of Jon D. Erickson, The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our
Future from the Fairytale of Economics, Washington, DC, Island Press, 2022,
xx + 252 pp., hb, ISBN 978-1-64-283252-5
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-2864571867056967235_p2> By Alexandru
Pătruți
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alexandru%20P%C4%83tru%C8%9Bi>
3. The logic of human intergroup conflict:
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-2864571867056967235_p3> By Rusch,
Hannes
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Rusch,%20Hannes>
4. Monnaie et reproduction
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-2864571867056967235_p4> By Christian
Tutin
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Christian%20Tutin>;
Anthony
de Grandi
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Anthony%20de%20Grandi>
5. The Morality of Markets
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_-2864571867056967235_p6> By Mathias
Dewatripont
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mathias%20Dewatripont>
; Jean Tirole
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jean%20Tirole>
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1. Symposium on Elisabeth Popp Berman's Thinking Like an Economist. How
Efficiency Replace Equality in U.S. Public Policy
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04270601>
By: Cleo Chassonnery-Zaigouche
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Cleo%20Chassonnery-Zaigouche>
(UNIBO
- University of Bologna = Università di Bologna); Aurélien Goutsmedt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Aur%C3%A9lien%20Goutsmedt>
(ISPOLE
- UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain,
F.R.S.-FNRS)
Abstract: Elisabeth Popp Berman's Thinking Like an Economist unfolds a
captivating and detailed historical account of the rise of economics and
economists' influence within the US Administration during the 1960s and
1970s. This transformation played a pivotal role in reshaping American
policy, Berman argues. At the core of her story is the concept of an
"economic style of reasoning", inspired by Ian Hacking's (1994) work.
Berman's "economic style of reasoning" describes a distinct approach to
policy problems, one anchored in microeconomic concepts (rather than
macroeconomic ones) such as incentives, externalities, and efficiency.
Crucially, the "economic style of reasoning" does not designate what some
economists think, but rather, a set of ideas, related to economics but not
completely overlapping with it, that are used in policy—not only by
economists. Throughout 230 pages, Berman masterfully traces the progressive
ascension of the economic style of reasoning within US administration, from
its rise in the 1960s to its relative decline during the Reagan Presidency.
"Efficiency" as a policy criterion gradually supplanted other foundational
values that had long justified policy actions, values such as "rights,
universalism, equity, and limiting corporate power" (4). These concepts
were actually loosely used by the actors Berman is interested in. Berman
posits that the dissemination of this style of reasoning exerted a profound
influence by eroding the legitimacy of policy propositions rooted in
alternative values, notably those championed by the left-wing of the
Democratic party. One strength of the book is to show how the economic
style of reasoning stuck and consolidated, even in the absence of
economists, and how unusual suspects—center-left technocrats, favoring
government intervention—were responsible for promoting a sense of
ineluctability of its use.
Keywords: Expertise, Economic expertise, Public policy, Style of
reasoning, Neoliberalism
Date: 2023
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04270601&r=hpe
2. Review of Jon D. Erickson, The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our
Future from the Fairytale of Economics, Washington, DC, Island Press, 2022,
xx + 252 pp., hb, ISBN 978-1-64-283252-5
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04067087>
By: Alexandru Pătruți
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alexandru%20P%C4%83tru%C8%9Bi>
(Bucharest
University of Economic Studies)
Abstract: Review of Jon D. Erickson, The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming
Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics
Date: 2023–04–13
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04067087&r=hpe
3. The logic of human intergroup conflict:
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:unm:umagsb:2023014>
By: Rusch, Hannes
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Rusch,%20Hannes> (RS:
GSBE UM-BIC, Microeconomics & Public Economics, RS: GSBE other - not
theme-related research)
Abstract: Human history as well as our present are ripe with violent
intergroup conflicts. Despite more than 2, 000 years of academic engagement
with this phenomenon [1] and (way too) much evidence available for analysis
[2], we are still short of encompassing theories of human belligerence. Not
least, theoretical progress is thwarted by the fact that intergroup
conflict is an interface phenomenon: its analysis requires the methods and
background knowledge of several academic disciplines. This review pushes
for intensified interdisciplinary integration in the study of human
warfare. It does so by presenting a selection of pathbreaking theoretical
contributions from economics, political science, social psychology, and
evolutionary biology, and contrasting their respective insights and blind
spots against the results of recent empirical work on human behavior
before, during, and after war. As a result, three key areas are identified
where theoretical breakthrough is still pending: (i) individual
mobilization, (ii) the ambiguous roles of leaders, and (iii) the endogenous
and dynamic interaction between conflict and its participants’ malleable
preferences. Thus, this review provides an overview of the research
frontier and highlights crucial challenges in the theoretical study of
human warfare.
Date: 2023–12–04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unm:umagsb:2023014&r=hpe
4. Monnaie et reproduction
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04284635>
By: Christian Tutin
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Christian%20Tutin>
(LAB'URBA
- LAB'URBA - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 -
Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12); Anthony de Grandi
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Anthony%20de%20Grandi>
(PHARE
- Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 -
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Abstract: Following de Boyer (2003), we compare Marx, Hilferding and
Luxemburg on their treatment of money and economic instability.
Abstract: Au chapitre 4 de La pensée monétaire, consacré à « l'analyse
marxiste » de la monnaie et des banques, J. de Boyer traite des apports
respectifs de Marx et d'Hilferding à l'analyse monétaire et financière.
Rosa Luxemburg est abordée dans la dernière section du dernier chapitre, à
propos de la formation du profit. Chez ces trois auteurs, J. de Boyer
interroge le lien entre caractère monétaire de l'économie, survenance des
crises et reproduction du système productif. Chez Marx, il pointe la double
origine de la crise, dans une distorsion « réelle » d'un côté, entre
consommation et production », et une distorsion entre les sphères réelle et
financière de l'autre. D'Hilferding, il retient son analyse du capital
financier et des banques, et son diagnostic de stabilisation du système
grâce à la double concentration du capital industriel et du capital
bancaire. Enfin, chez Rosa Luxemburg, il montre à la fois la pertinence de
la question soulevée par elle, qui n'est autre que celle de la formation du
profit, et sa négligence des banques, qui lui interdit de voir la réponse
que peut représenter le crédit, et fragilise son diagnostic d'impossibilité
de la reproduction et d'inéluctabilité de la crise. Dans cette
communication, nous proposons une mise en perspective de ces trois auteurs,
qui tout en partant des mêmes présupposés que J. de Boyer, insiste plus que
lui sur le rôle des banques et des marchés financiers dans l'émergence des
disproportions qui mènent à la crise. Suivant en cela la voie ouverte par
Hilferding dans Le Capital Financier, on se propose de relier les livres II
et III du Capital en expliquant l'émergence et l'aggravation des
disproportions sectorielles par un mécanisme de fragilisation de la
structure financière tel que le décrit Marx dans la Vème section du livre
III, et dans lequel le crédit bancaire joue un rôle essentiel. L'analyse
des banques, peu présente chez Marx mais entreprise par Hilferding, permet
ainsi de rendre compte de la double dimension, industrielle et financière,
des crises économiques.
Keywords: Marx Karl, Hilferding Rudolf, Marx, Théorie des crises,
Instabilité financière, Mors clés : Crise financière, crise de
reproduction, capital financier, marxisme
Date: 2022–07–06
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04284635&r=hpeThe
Morality of Markets
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:eca:wpaper:2013/365277>
5.
By: Mathias Dewatripont
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mathias%20Dewatripont>
; Jean Tirole
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jean%20Tirole>
Abstract: Scholars and civil society have argued that competition erodes
supplier morality. This paper establishes a robust irrelevance result,
whereby intense market competition does not crowd out consequentialist
ethics; it thereby issues a strong warning against the wholesale moral
condemnation of markets and pro-competitive institutions. Intense
competition, while not altering the behavior of profitable suppliers,
however may reduce the standards of highly ethical suppliers or
not-for-profits, raising the potential need to protect the latter in the
marketplace.
Keywords: Competition, consequentialism, replacement logic, non-profits,
corporate social responsability, race to the ethical bottom
Date: 2023–11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:eca:wpaper:2013/365277&r=hpe
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