[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 2022‒07‒18
papers chosen by
Erik Thomson <http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm>
University of Manitoba <http://umanitoba.ca/>
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1. The influence of Sen’s applied economics on his non-welfarist
approach to justice
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2867345780897108574_p1> By Muriel
Gilardone
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Muriel%20Gilardone>
2. 300 Anniversary of Smith’s Birth
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2867345780897108574_p2> By Vernon
L. Smith
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vernon%20L.%20Smith>
3. Economic Thought of Social Reform: A. Toynbee's Theory of Cooperatives
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2867345780897108574_p3> By Hayato
Takeguchi
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Hayato%20Takeguchi>; Jun
Suzuki <http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jun%20Suzuki>
4. Sado-Masochism in Buchanan's Samaritan's Dilemma. A Constitutional
Perspective <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2867345780897108574_p5>
By Alain Marciano
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alain%20Marciano>
5. Four Facts about Human Capital
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2867345780897108574_p7> By David J.
Deming
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=David%20J.%20Deming>
6. Putting Clio Back in Cliometrics
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2867345780897108574_p9> By Laurent
Gauthier
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Laurent%20Gauthier>
7. Cliometrics and the Future of Economic History
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_2867345780897108574_p10> By Claude
Diebolt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Claude%20Diebolt>;
Michael
Haupert
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Michael%20Haupert>
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1. The influence of Sen’s applied economics on his non-welfarist
approach to justice
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-03690014>
By: Muriel Gilardone
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Muriel%20Gilardone> (CREM
- Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de
Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR1 - Université de Rennes 1 -
UNIV-RENNES - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique)
Abstract: This chapter shows that Sen's (2009) non-welfarist approach to
justice is greatly influenced by 1) his work on famines; 2) his empirical
work on gender inequalities, specifically within the Indian society, that
helped him to refine his approach to hunger; and 3) his involvement in the
creation of the human development approach. All these engagements —
seemingly completely separate from his theoretical work in welfare
economics — have, in fact, fostered the formulation of a novel approach in
which agency and public reasoning are the core elements.
Keywords: Amartya Sen,agency,public action,famines,gender
inequalities,human development,perception bias,democracy,public
reasoning,non-welfarism
Date: 2021–03–04
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-03690014&r=
2. 300 Anniversary of Smith’s Birth
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:chu:wpaper:22-09>
By: Vernon L. Smith
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vernon%20L.%20Smith>
(Economic
Science Institute, Chapman University)
Abstract: Thousand-word brief on key quotes from Adam Smith’s two
books (TMS, WN) modelling Society and Economy
Keywords: Experiment, theory, history of economic thought
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:chu:wpaper:22-09&r=
3. Economic Thought of Social Reform: A. Toynbee's Theory of Cooperatives
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:koe:wpaper:2211>
By: Hayato Takeguchi
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Hayato%20Takeguchi>
(Graduate
School of Economics, Kobe University); Jun Suzuki
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Jun%20Suzuki> (Graduate
School of Economics, Kobe University)
Date: 2022–06
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:koe:wpaper:2211&r=
4. Sado-Masochism in Buchanan's Samaritan's Dilemma. A Constitutional
Perspective <http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03683854>
By: Alain Marciano
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Alain%20Marciano> (MRE
- Montpellier Recherche en Economie - UM - Université de Montpellier, UM -
Université de Montpellier)
Abstract: In this paper, we study the impact of altruism on an
interaction between a samaritan and a recipient/parasite in the frame of
Buchanan's samaritan's dilemma (1975). We show that, as soon as altruism
reaches a certain threshold, the equilibrium of the game corresponds to the
situation Buchanan called a samaritan's dilemma. We also show that the Nash
equilibrium reached for these levels of altruism is a Pareto-efficient
outcome. Thus, the situation Buchanan characterized as a samaritan's
dilemma is not a dilemma at all. Both players are satisfied with the
situation as it is and need each other, up to the point of giving birth to
a sado-masochistic equilibrium. We also show that this result holds if and
only if the constitutional rules are given-either the ethical rules
followed by the individuals, or the form of the game. This equilibrium
could be avoided if the players adopted a constitutional perspective on the
situation.
Keywords: Masochism,Altruism,Samaritan's
dilemma,Buchanan,Exploitation,Sadism
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03683854&r=
5. Four Facts about Human Capital
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30149>
By: David J. Deming
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=David%20J.%20Deming>
Abstract: This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about
human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human
capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings
within countries and at least half of the variation across countries.
Second, human capital investments have high economic returns throughout
childhood and young adulthood. Third, we know how to build foundational
skills such as literacy and numeracy, and resources are often the main
constraint. Fourth, higher-order skills such as problem-solving and
teamwork are increasingly valuable, and the technology for producing these
skills is not well-understood. We know that investment in education works
and that skills matter for earnings, but we do not always know why.
JEL: I25 I26 J24
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?jel=I25%20I26%20J24>
Date: 2022–06
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30149&r=
6. Putting Clio Back in Cliometrics
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03289608>
By: Laurent Gauthier
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Laurent%20Gauthier> (LED
- Laboratoire d'Economie Dionysien - UP8 - Université Paris 8
Vincennes-Saint-Denis)
Abstract: This paper makes the argument for renewed cliometrics that
could serve history. History and economics have grown relying on each other
over the past century, but a disconnect has appeared, whereby the range
between history and economics has been occupied by the latter. As a
consequence, historians have tended to shun these fields of inquiry. We
begin our analysis with a discussion of the complex set of separate domains
that lie between history and economics, and determine certain salient
features that define them, in particular the search for nomothetic
explanations. We examine the reception of economic method by historians and
point out that it has suffered both from this nomothetic angle and from the
implicit presumption that economics are only applicable to the economy.
Stressing the distinction between understanding and explaining in the
philosophy of history, we show that, for historians, explaining should
remain in the realm of history. We then propose that economics be
considered a methodological auxiliary for understanding, as new
cliometrics, not attempting to offer explanations. We discuss some examples
of using microeconomics as a critical methodology in the study of ancient
Greece.
Keywords: cliometrics,historiography,cliodynamics,clionomics
Date: 2022–06–01
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03289608&r=
7. Cliometrics and the Future of Economic History
<http://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:afc:wpaper:06-22>
By: Claude Diebolt
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Claude%20Diebolt>
(BETA/CNRS
(UMR 7522), University of Strasbourg, 61 avenue de la Forêt Noire,
France); Michael
Haupert
<http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Michael%20Haupert>
(University
of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
Date: 2022
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:afc:wpaper:06-22&r=
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