Paganelli determines whether markets corrupt our morals. She argues that the problem lies in the interpretation of who constitutes "our". Markets do corrupt a set of morals present in non-commercial ...societies. But markets replace those morals with a different set of morals. So, it is not that markets crowd out virtues, leaving a vacuum, but that markets substitute a set of virtues with another set of virtues. In this sense, markets both corrupt morals and help us become moral. Both statements are correct, because "our morals" may not be a fixed set of morals, but different sets of morals.
There was, in the decades after World War 2, a ready audience for studies that purported to show that, given the right conditions, any of us could become Nazi torturers or prison guards. Gustavo ...Basso/NurPhoto/Getty Images First, self-interest is a degraded and limited way to describe the behaviour of health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: doctors, nurses, and other health-care workers are selflessly putting their lives at risk in the service of others. ...pursuing a model of unbridled free markets brings in its train problems of inequality, poverty, and externalities such as threats to the environment and our planet. ...Adam Smith, the brilliant originator of this free-market model, did not believe it gave an adequate account of individuals' motivations.
LA INNOVACIÓN EN EL PENSAMIENTO ECONÓMICO Yureidys García Leonard; Rafael Antonio Sorhegui Ortega
Revista Científica Ecociencia,
02/2018, Letnik:
5, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Innovation is considered a paradigm of the competitiveness of nations and therefore influences the development of countries, reasons why it becomes one of the most studied topics and that worries ...governments in the design of their industrial policies. While it is true that with the development of the evolutionary school begins to formalize an independent theory to economic growth models about technological development, this was present in economic thought. The contributions of the different schools set guidelines about their conception as a process: social, inclusive and sustainable, notwithstanding their conceptual development and the proliferation of empirical studies that become normative frameworks, it can not be concluded that we are in the presence of a The finished concept of innovation, even in the scientific debate, there are still risks to be explored in terms of inclusion and the development of scientific and innovation capacities in developing economies, where the strength of innovation systems is a challenge. The article presented seeks to analyze the evolution of the concept of innovation through the contributions of the schools of economic thought, in order to delimit the gaps that exist in their study methodology and limit the outbreak of less developed economies in such a way. sense.
Competition and Justice in Adam Smith Jütten, Timo
The Southern journal of philosophy,
March 2023, 2023-03-00, 20230301, Letnik:
61, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
This article analyzes the relationship between competition and justice in Adam Smith in order to determine to what extent competition can promote and undermine justice. I examine how competition ...features in two basic motivations for human action, “the propensity to truck barter and exchange,” and “the desire of bettering our condition.” Both can be traced back to the desire for recognition, but they operate in very different ways. The former manifests itself in social cooperation, chiefly commercial exchange and the division of labor, and while it can take a competitive form, competitive success produces benefits for everyone. In contrast, the latter may manifest itself in win‐lose social competition. Commercial society harnesses both motivations, and both have negative as well as positive effects. However, while Smith explicitly addresses the negative effects of excessive specialization in the division of labor, it is less clear how he thinks the negative effects of social competition can be addressed. I argue that competition can undermine justice when (i) it pits people against each other and (ii) leads to psychological corruption. I conclude with some reflections on what a focus on competition adds to our understanding of Smith's work.
This paper investigates the rather neglected relevance of persuasion in Smith’s corpus and its foundational character. Smith’s permanent and comprehensive concern with persuasion pervades his entire ...legacy. But, fully aware of the risks of this strong ‘human desire’ or ‘instinct’ to ‘lead and direct other people’, Smith develops what can be labelled as sympathetic persuasion. The moral, political and economic implications of Smith’s persuasion provide a common, consistent and foundational concept for his ideal of a civilized and free society. Finally, this interpretation of the importance of Smith’s persuasion allows us to overcome the famous Das Adam Smith Problem.
A 300 años del natalicio de Adam Smith, este ensayo debate la idea de que el filósofo, reconocido como padre de la ciencia económica, carecía de pensamiento inclusivo. Con esa finalidad, se explora ...cómo el modelo principal de la teoría económica tuvo que reconciliar sus divergencias con la visión filosófica de Smith para adoptar la perspectiva de género. Al comparar las reglas del orden económico elaboradas por Smith con las ecuaciones del modelo del consumidor individual (MCE), descubrimos que la Ley de la Indiferencia adoptada por el MCE es el principal desacuerdo entre ambos argumentos teóricos. Al profundizar en los desafíos que surgen al aplicar el marco analítico basado en la indiferencia al estudio de las decisiones colectivas. En concreto, nos concentramos en los principales modelos de las decisiones económicas de las mujeres que viven con sus parejas. A través de este análisis, encontramos que al utilizar un esquema analítico libre de indiferencia es indispensable para capturar la disputa distributiva inherente a las decisiones realizadas en pareja, éstas pueden derivar en resultados inequitativos. Este enfoque alternativo refleja mejor la naturaleza conflictiva que Smith asignaba a los asuntos relativos a la riqueza, volviéndose evidente que los modelos de género se alinean mejor con la concepción filosófica de Smith sobre el comportamiento humano. Las observaciones finales del documento sirven para recordar la breve pero sustancial teoría de Smith sobre la desigualdad de las mujeres. También resaltan las contribuciones cruciales del enfoque económico de género en la construcción de una comprensión más profunda de las causas y consecuencias de las disparidades económicas. Al reconocer la franca oposición de Smith al trato injusto hacia las mujeres, honramos su legado y mostramos la importancia de abordar los desafíos únicos que obstaculizan la igualdad de género.
Adam Smith was not just a pioneer of political economy; he was also a moral philosopher who aspired to write a systematic theory of law. Though he never completed the project - he asked the executors ...of his estate to burn his notes - his major published works contain a multitude of passages from which significant portions of his legal theory can be reconstructed. Many of Smith's views are of great relevance to present-day issues. He proposed financial regulation restricting the freedom of individuals, which he likened to the necessity of equipping buildings with firewalls. In light of the global firestorm caused by the most recent banking crisis, Smith's ideas appear strikingly modern. Jens Petersen, Universität Potsdam.
Adam Smith ¿hoy? Cabrera, Sergio
Ola financiera,
05/2023, Letnik:
16, Številka:
45
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
El artículo explora qué nos puede dejar hoy abordar el discurso teórico de hace casi 300 años, referente del nacimiento de Adam Smith. No solo se festeja al creador de Investigación Acerca de la ...Naturaleza y Causas de la Riqueza de las Naciones, sino sobre todo a la complejidad de esta etapa, que cambió la vida de sociedades enteras y no es menos influyente que la Revolución Industrial, proceso que continúa hasta el día de hoy. Resaltando la importancia que representa la ilustración que acontece en Escocia, en particular sus intelectuales, quienes se preocuparon por la moral, en tanto que profesores de este temática en las universidades de dicho país.
During the British Enlightenment, the correlation between effective communication and moral excellence was undisputed—so much so that rhetoric was taught as a means of instilling desirable ...values in students. In Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue , Mark Garrett Longaker explores the connections between rhetoric and ethics in the context of the history of capitalism.
Longaker’s study lingers on four British intellectuals from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century: philosopher John Locke, political economist Adam Smith, rhetorical theorist Hugh Blair, and sociologist Herbert Spencer. Across one hundred and fifty years, these influential men sought to mold British students into good bourgeois citizens by teaching them the discursive habits of clarity, sincerity, moderation, and economy, all with one incontrovertible truth in mind: the free market requires virtuous participants in order to thrive.
Through these four case studies—written as biographically focused yet socially attentive intellectual histories—Longaker portrays the British rhetorical tradition as beholden to the dual masters of ethics and economics, and he sheds new light on the deliberate intellectual engineering implicit in Enlightenment pedagogy.
PDF
