[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 2023‒01‒16
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. On the modernity of Carl Menger: criss-cross views. Roundtable
conversation <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p1>
By Gilles Campagnolo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Gilles%20Campagnolo>;
Sandye
Gloria
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sandye%20Gloria>; Heinz
Kurz <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Heinz%20Kurz>;
Richard
Sturn <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Richard%20Sturn>
2. Carl Menger on time and entrepreneurship
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p2> By Gilles
Campagnolo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Gilles%20Campagnolo>
3. Towards a unity of sense: A critical analysis of the concept of
relation in methodological individualism and holism in Economics
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p3> By Giancarlo
Ianulardo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Giancarlo%20Ianulardo>
; Aldo Stella
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Aldo%20Stella>
4. Was Menger Aristotelian? A Rejoinder and Clarification
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p4> By Gilles
Campagnolo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Gilles%20Campagnolo>
5. Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American
Justice <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p5>
By Chen,
Daniel L.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Chen,%20Daniel%20L.>;
Ash,
Elliott
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ash,%20Elliott>; Naidu,
Suresh
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Naidu,%20Suresh>
6. The scalpel and the ledger: Finance, medicine and the making of a
professional life in Ireland, India and Britain, 1888-1921
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p6> By Cassidy,
Daniel
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Cassidy,%20Daniel>;
Fitzpatrick,
Kieran
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fitzpatrick,%20Kieran>
7. How the Phillips Curve Shaped Full Employment Policy in the 1970s:
The Debates on the Humphrey-Hawkins Act
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p7> By Aurélien
Goutsmedt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Aur%C3%A9lien%20Goutsmedt>
8. Economics & Biology: The whole is something besides the parts – a
complementary approach to a bioeconomy
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p8> By Joshua
Henkel
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Joshua%20Henkel>
9. Classic Grounded Theory: A Qualitative Research on Human Behavior
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p9> By Mohajan,
Devajit
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mohajan,%20Devajit>;
Mohajan,
Haradhan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mohajan,%20Haradhan>
10. ‘Freedom’ on the Road to Ruin: An Australian Apology to America’s
Freedom-Loving Hard Right.
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p10> By L A Duhs
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=L%20A%20Duhs>
11. Do Strict Egalitarians Really Exist?
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p11> By Hyoji
Kwon <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Hyoji%20Kwon>;
Yukihiko
Funaki
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Yukihiko%20Funaki>
12. Moving from Accounting for People to Accounting with People: A
Critical Analysis of the Literature and Avenues for Research
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p12> By Corinne
Ollier Bessieux
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Corinne%20Ollier%20Bessieux>
; Emmanuelle Negre
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Emmanuelle%20Negre>;
Marie-Anne
Verdier
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Marie-Anne%20Verdier>
13. We do not know the Population of Every Country in the World for the
Past Two Thousand Years
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p13> By Guinnane,
T. W.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Guinnane,%20T.%20W.>
14. The Utilitarian's Guide to Dreams
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p16> By Piovarchy,
Adam
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Piovarchy,%20Adam>
15. Moral Universalism: Global Evidence
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_8331023580413695058_p17> By Alexander
W. Cappelen
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alexander%20W.%20Cappelen>
; Benjamin Enke
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Benjamin%20Enke>; Bertil
Tungodden
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Bertil%20Tungodden>
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1. On the modernity of Carl Menger: criss-cross views. Roundtable
conversation <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03895951>
By: Gilles Campagnolo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Gilles%20Campagnolo>
(AMSE
- Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en
sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale
de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Sandye
Gloria
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sandye%20Gloria> (GREDEG
- Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice
Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - COMUE UCA - COMUE Université Côte d'Azur
(2015-2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UCA -
Université Côte d'Azur); Heinz Kurz
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Heinz%20Kurz>
(Karl-Franzens-Universität
Graz); Richard Sturn
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Richard%20Sturn>
(Karl-Franzens-Universität
Graz)
Abstract: From different perspectives regarding the History of Economic
Thought, the contributions to this roundtable highlight different aspects
and levels of the modernity of the founder of the Austrian School of
Economics, and of his importance for the development of social theory and
the discipline of scientific economics. This is complemented by discussions
of ambiguities and multiple meanings of modernity.
Keywords: Austrian economics, Carl Menger, modern economics, modernity,
enlightenment, complexity economics, subjectivism, value theory
Date: 2022–08–22
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03895951&r=hpe
2. Carl Menger on time and entrepreneurship
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03779379>
By: Gilles Campagnolo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Gilles%20Campagnolo>
(AMSE
- Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en
sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale
de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Abstract: Carl Menger is remembered less for his analysis of
entrepreneurship (which in the following analysis refers to his fundamental
notions related to the nature of business practice) than for his views on
matters like money, individualism or the nature of institutions (there are
exceptions to this subdued interest, such as Kirzner 1978). However, these
issues are related and a long-debated notion among Austrians, namely time,
relates investment, entrepreneurship, uncertainty and Menger's tentative
quasi-anthropology (kept in his notes). This paper conscientiously
investigates those issues through Menger's views on the notion of time.
Keywords: Böhm-Bawerk (Eugen von), entrepreneurship, innovation, Menger
(Carl), time
Date: 2022–09
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03779379&r=hpe
3. Towards a unity of sense: A critical analysis of the concept of
relation in methodological individualism and holism in Economics
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03771892>
By: Giancarlo Ianulardo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Giancarlo%20Ianulardo>
(University
of Exeter Business School - University of Exeter); Aldo Stella
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Aldo%20Stella> (UNIPG
- Università degli Studi di Perugia = University of Perugia)
Abstract: In social sciences and, in particular, in economics the debate
on the most adequate model of explanation of social phenomena has been
centred around two models: Methodological Individualism and Holism. While
Methodological Individualism claims to be the most rigorous attempt to
explain social phenomena by reducing them to their ultimate components,
Holism stresses the primacy of the social relation, outside of which
individuals cannot be understood as analytical units. In the analysis, we
will refer to the way the debate has influenced economics education too
through the debate on microfoundations and the role of individual
preferences. In synthesis, we aim to show that the two explanatory models,
rather than being opposed, need to be integrated, because they need each
other. But for this to be done, we need to reflect on the role that the
concept of "relation" plays in our understanding of the social structure
and of the dynamics that characterises it. Indeed, the holistic-systemic
model, though privileging the relation, must acknowledge that the relation
needs some ultimate elements (the individuals), which in turn are
prioritised by methodological individualism. But these entities, the
individuals, in order to be what they are, i.e., each a determinate
identity, need each to be referred to other individuals, which are
essential to determine the single determinate identity. This means that
each individual needs the relation. To prevent a circular explanation, we
claim that a correct methodology should understand both the individual and
society in the light of the unity of sense that emerges at the end of the
process, rather than focusing on its starting point.
Keywords: Methodological Individualism, holism, systemism, relation,
unity
Date: 2022–12–15
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03771892&r=hpe
4. Was Menger Aristotelian? A Rejoinder and Clarification
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03896083>
By: Gilles Campagnolo
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Gilles%20Campagnolo>
(AMSE
- Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en
sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale
de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Abstract: How did Carl Menger read Aristotle? This debate is 'old hat'
within Mengerian scholarship. Delving through the archives, new elements
have been added by Emil Kauder and, more recently, by myself. Some issues
raised by Ricardo Crespo are clarified in the following response. In an
essay published in 2003, Crespo defended the idea that Menger is not an
'orthodox Aristotelian'. I retorted in a paper coauthored with Aurélien
Lordon in 2011. Crespo resumed the exchange, summarized and modified his
argument (Crespo 2022). This rejoinder aims at setting the record straight.
Keywords: Aristotle Aristotelianism Austrian school of economics Menger
(Carl) Methodenstreit (dispute over methods) methodology of economics,
Aristotle, Aristotelianism, Austrian school of economics, Menger (Carl),
Methodenstreit (dispute over methods), methodology of economics
Date: 2022–11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03896083&r=hpe
5. Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American
Justice <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:tse:wpaper:127594>
By: Chen, Daniel L.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Chen,%20Daniel%20L.>;
Ash,
Elliott
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Ash,%20Elliott>; Naidu,
Suresh
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Naidu,%20Suresh>
Abstract: This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the eects of
the early law and economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. Using the
universe of published opinions in U.S. Circuit Courts and 1 million
District Court criminal sentencing decisions linked to judge identity, we
estimate the eect of attendance in the con- troversial Manne economics
training program, an intensive course attended by almost half of federal
judges between 1976 and 1999. After attending economics training,
participating judges use more economics language, render more conser-
vative verdicts in economics cases, rule against regulatory/taxation
agencies more often, and impose longer criminal sentences. These results
are robust to adjusting for a wide variety of covariates that predict the
timing of attendance. Non-Manne judges randomly exposed to Manne peers on
previous cases increase their use of economics language in subsequent
opinions, suggesting economics ideas diused throughout the judiciary.
JEL: D7 K0 Z1
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=D7%20K0%20Z1>
Date: 2022–12–13
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tse:wpaper:127594&r=hpe
6. The scalpel and the ledger: Finance, medicine and the making of a
professional life in Ireland, India and Britain, 1888-1921
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:eabhps:2202>
By: Cassidy, Daniel
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Cassidy,%20Daniel>;
Fitzpatrick,
Kieran
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fitzpatrick,%20Kieran>
Abstract: By the time of his death in September 1921, Peter Johnstone
Freyer was an extremely wealthy man. After an education at Queen's College
Galway, his medical career had been defined by colonial service in India,
and the establishment of a successful surgery and consultancy on London's
Harley Street. In public, these hallmarks of his career led to him being
described by his contemporaries as amongst medicine's most prominent
figures, and as a 'great surgeon' by newspapers the length of and breadth
of the United Kingdom on the occasion of his death. However, his private
papers show that his medical practice was only responsible for a small part
of his material success; two-thirds of his wealth was derived from his
skill, exercised in private, as an investor in financial markets. By
establishing his history as an investor, and comparing it to his public
profile in medicine, this paper traces the social and cultural histories of
professional identity in late-Victorian and Edwardian London. Over the
course of its arc, it demonstrates how medicine's public significance in
this period was part of a broader, middle-class, professional culture
concerned with the accrual of 'virtual' wealth, the construction of
advantageous social networks, and the tapping of capital in multiple forms.
In sum, Freyer's career reflects the symbolic meaning of publicly wielding
a scalpel, whilst privately managing a portfolio of financial ledgers.
Keywords: Financial markets, investment, risk
JEL: G41 N2 N3
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=G41%20N2%20N3>
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:eabhps:2202&r=hpe
7. How the Phillips Curve Shaped Full Employment Policy in the 1970s:
The Debates on the Humphrey-Hawkins Act
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03878346>
By: Aurélien Goutsmedt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Aur%C3%A9lien%20Goutsmedt>
(ISPOLE
- Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain Europe - Institut de Sciences
Politiques Louvain Europe)
Abstract: Abstract This article relates the history of economists'
influence in shaping the content of the Humphrey-Hawkins Act (1978) and its
immediate consequences. The act committed the federal government to
reducing unemployment to 4 percent and inflation to 3 percent as soon as
1983. Initially, the Humphrey-Hawkins bill was conceived as a project to
favor the economic integration of African Americans and economic planning
and targeted only the unemployment rate. Republican senators successfully
pushed for adding a numerical inflation target during the debates in
Congress. The act eventually put on equal footing inflation and
unemployment. This article argues that the economists in the Carter
administration, and notably the Council of Economic Advisers, were
instrumental, even if unintentionally, in favoring the integration of an
inflation target and such an interpretation of the bill. In the
negotiations that opposed them to the supporters of the bill, as well as in
the analysis of the bill they produced, they insisted on the existence of a
trade-off between inflation and unemployment and referred frequently to the
famous Phillips curve. They endeavored to anchor their expertise on
academic publications, which strengthened the role of the Phillips curve in
shaping the debates. Business organizations and senators used references to
the trade-off to undermine the bill and favor the integration of an
inflation target.
Date: 2022–08–01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03878346&r=hpe
8. Economics & Biology: The whole is something besides the parts – a
complementary approach to a bioeconomy
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:atv:wpaper:2210>
By: Joshua Henkel
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Joshua%20Henkel>
Abstract: This paper examines relations between economics and biology
regarding the historical background of these disciplines. Though economics
is a social science its emergence has strong links to the natural sciences,
especially to physics. This methodological basis seems to be mostly
forgotten in mainstream economics. Since this methodology is based on the
same principles of universal natural laws, it should make the branches of
economics and biology compatible. Merging biology and economics could have
a strong impact on finding solutions to our modern world sustainability
problems and avoiding the dangers of the entropic abyss. This is only
possible if mainstream economics is more open to assimilate information
from outside its own field. Unequivocally, the most straightforward impact
of a collaboration of these disciplines would be a biobased economy, that
would tackle many problems our resource intensive and unsustainable
economic system is facing at the moment.
Keywords: Sustainability, Culture, Collapse, Bio-economy
JEL: A12 B52 Q01 Q57
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A12%20B52%20Q01%20Q57>
Date: 2022–12
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:atv:wpaper:2210&r=hpe
9. Classic Grounded Theory: A Qualitative Research on Human Behavior
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:115789>
By: Mohajan, Devajit
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mohajan,%20Devajit>;
Mohajan,
Haradhan
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mohajan,%20Haradhan>
Abstract: Grounded theory is an inductive methodological approach in
social sciences and other related subjects. It generates theory about
social processes, which are grounded in reality. Classic grounded theory is
a unique inductive research approach with language, rules of rigor,
procedures, and a final achievement, which is different from other research
methods. The purpose of classic grounded theory is to theorize and
facilitate an understanding of an effective knowledge, which is happening
on the lives of people of the society. It represents grounded theory in a
pure form, which emerges from the original work of Barney Galland Glaser
(1930-2022) and Anselm Leonard Strauss (1916-1996) that is developed in
1967. It is the development of a theory from data with open ideas that
comes from the data. This study tries to discuss a qualitative research
design following a classic grounded theory approach through ontological,
epistemological, and methodological assumptions of grounded theory. This
study explores classic grounded theory approach including strengths and
challenges of development in the social science.
Keywords: Classic grounded theory, Glaser, qualitative research, social
science
JEL: A13 A14 D6 D71 O35
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=A13%20A14%20D6%20D71%20O35>
Date: 2022–10–07
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:115789&r=hpe
10. ‘Freedom’ on the Road to Ruin: An Australian Apology to America’s
Freedom-Loving Hard Right.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03701554>
By: L A Duhs
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=L%20A%20Duhs> (University
of Queensland [Brisbane])
Abstract: Contemporary America faces deep-seated problems - not least
because so many Americans have lost respect for their own electoral system
and democratic institutions. America suffers too from unrelenting right
wing hyperbole in respect of significant social issues, including their
conviction that only they understand, and value, freedom. Because of
Australia's restrictive responses to the covid-19 pandemic, Florida's
Governor Ron DeSantis – a potential Presidential candidate - denigrates
Australia as ‘not a free country; not a free country at all'. Australians
may dismiss Governor DeSantis's comments as laughable, but a chorus of hard
right comments in support of his view invites a comparison of the different
ways in which ‘freedom' is understood in Republican America and in
Australia. One consequence of DeSantis's conception of ‘freedom' is the
extraordinary American death rate from the Covid-19 pandemic, which in the
case of Florida – which DeSantis celebrates as the ‘free-est State' – stood
at about 48 times the Australian rate when he scorned Australia as
indistinguishable from communist China. Despite massive American spending
on defence budgets, a domestic battle has been waged, and lost, in respect
of the more prosaic defence of America's traditional economic philosophy,
and its defining institutions; and American conservatives are now divided
even within their own ranks as to what it is that they wish to conserve,
other than partisan advantage. The roots of America's present malaise are
to be found in the evolving (mis)understandings of a set of keywords
including ‘freedom', ‘democracy', ‘tyranny', ‘individualism', and
‘society'. The radical right has impoverished the understanding of these
keywords, and Australia's pandemic response was in fact designed to give
itself freedom from the ‘freedom' that the Republican right now eulogises.
In the name of an implicit and contentious teleological vision, the
Republican understanding of ‘freedom' has now descended to the point where
America's hard right perversely sees itself as actually now needing to save
Australia from democracy, while simultaneously undermining its own
democratic institutions. The need for a reinvigorated teaching of economic
philosophy is plain to see.
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03701554&r=hpe
11. Do Strict Egalitarians Really Exist?
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:wap:wpaper:2206>
By: Hyoji Kwon
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Hyoji%20Kwon> (Graduate
School of Ecoomics, Waseda University); Yukihiko Funaki
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Yukihiko%20Funaki>
(School
of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
Abstract: The purpose of our study is to verify the argument of Cappelen
et al. (2007) that insists on the pluralism of fairness ideals. Their
experiments are based on the dictator game with production, and they
suggest that three fairness ideals exist: strict egalitarianism,
libertarianism, and liberal egalitarianism. However, because of the
characteristics of the dictator game, the egoistic behavior of taking all
of the endowments is a reasonable decision and cannot be ignored. In this
paper, we show by estimation of modified models that strict egalitarians do
not exist but that egoists do. We assume that people who follow different
fairness ideals also place different weights on fairness, and we separate
the weight parameter by the three fairness ideals. Especially in the case
of strict egalitarianism, the estimated value of the weight parameter
indicates that strict egalitarians behave like egoists who take all of the
total product. This result implies that people rarely follow the strict
egalitarian ideal under this kind of dictator game with a production phase
and, instead, a high proportion of egoists take the total product without
considering any fairness ideals.
Keywords: Fairness; Distributional Preferences; Dictator game
JEL: C91 D63 D91
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=C91%20D63%20D91>
Date: 2022–11
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wap:wpaper:2206&r=hpe
12. Moving from Accounting for People to Accounting with People: A
Critical Analysis of the Literature and Avenues for Research
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03889478>
By: Corinne Ollier Bessieux
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Corinne%20Ollier%20Bessieux>
; Emmanuelle Negre
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Emmanuelle%20Negre> (IRGO
- Institut de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations - UB - Université de
Bordeaux - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) -
Bordeaux); Marie-Anne
Verdier
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Marie-Anne%20Verdier>
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of
the ‘accounting for people' literature and to suggest avenues for research
that encourage this literature to take a radical emancipatory turn by using
dialogic accounting. Our review covers the past five decades and
concentrates on a corpus of 109 articles published in 22 accounting
journals. Although the social agenda was initially central to the rise in
the accounting for people literature, it was quickly supplanted by economic
and financial objectives. The more recent focus on Human Capital (HC),
driven by the emergence of a new spirit of capitalism, appears to have
breathed new life into the accounting for people literature. However, the
HC concept also (i) simplifies humans' subjective qualities by
overquantification through a reification process that extends the sphere of
commodification to humans and (ii) reinforces labor control processes. We
highlight the need for future literature to move from the ‘accounting for
people' approach to an ‘accounting with people' approach to really give a
voice to humans, and outline the potential of dialogic HC accounts for
achieving that aim.
Keywords: Human Capital, Literature Review, Dialogic Accounting,
Critical Accounting, Accounting For People
Date: 2022–04–01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03889478&r=hpe
13. We do not know the Population of Every Country in the World for the
Past Two Thousand Years
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:cam:camjip:2233>
By: Guinnane, T. W.
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Guinnane,%20T.%20W.>
Abstract: Economists have reported results based on populations for
every country in the world for the past two thousand years. The source,
McEvedy and Jones’ Atlas of World Population History, includes many
estimates that are little more than guesses and that do not reflect
research since 1978. McEvedy and Jones often infer population sizes from
their view of a particular economy, making their estimates poor proxies for
economic growth. Their rounding means their measurement error is not
“classical.†Some economists augment that error by disaggregating
regions in unfounded ways. Econometric results that rest on McEvedy and
Jones are unreliable.
Date: 2022–12–15
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cam:camjip:2233&r=hpe
14. The Utilitarian's Guide to Dreams
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:osfxxx:5pre7>
By: Piovarchy, Adam
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Piovarchy,%20Adam>
Abstract: Unpleasant dreams occur much more frequently than many people
realise. If one is a hedonistic utilitarian—or, at least, one thinks that
dreams have positive or negative moral value in virtue of their
experiential quality—then one has considerable reason to try to make such
dreams more positive. Given it is possible to improve the quality of our
dreams, we ought to be promoting and implementing currently available
interventions which improve our dream experiences, and conducting research
to find new, more effective interventions.
Date: 2022–12–05
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:5pre7&r=hpe
15. Moral Universalism: Global Evidence
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_10110>
By: Alexander W. Cappelen
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alexander%20W.%20Cappelen>
; Benjamin Enke
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Benjamin%20Enke>; Bertil
Tungodden
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Bertil%20Tungodden>
Abstract: This paper presents novel stylized facts about the global
variation in universalism, leveraging nationally representative surveys
across 60 countries (N=64,000). We find large variation in universalism
within and across countries, which almost entirely reflects heterogeneity
in people’s moral views regarding how to treat different types of
relationships. Universalism is strongly predictive of political views,
civic engagement, and the radius of trust, and varies with the economic,
political and religious organization of societies. We provide tentative
evidence that experience with democracy makes people more universalist.
Overall, our results suggests that moral universalism shapes and is shaped
by politico-economic outcomes across the globe.
Keywords: moral universalism, political economy, culture
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_10110&r=hpe
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