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Rawls’ influence and counter-influence on Sen: post-welfarism and impartiality
Gilardone, Muriel - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2011
Rawls has been a constant reference for Sen both to overcome welfarism and consider impartiality. In this paper, we …’ll try to identify Sen’s paradoxical relationship to Rawls’ work that has evolved with time. The dialogue between both … authors emerged in the late sixties, while Sen was working on a constructive social choice theory. Sen greatly benefited from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283639
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Climate justice for persons with disability: Few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much
Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023
Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477593
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Climate justice for persons with disability : few harmed much, fewer still harmed too much
Tampubolon, Gindo - 2023
Building on Rawls' theory of justice and Sen's theory of capabilities, I present an outline of social justice under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549974
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Recent Engagements with Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
Paganelli, Maria Pia - 2015
Recent literature on Adam Smith and other 18th-century Scottish thinkers shows an engaged conversation between the Scots and today's scholars in the sciences that deal with humans—social sciences, humanities, as well as neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. We share with the 18th-century...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592240
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The behavioral economics of John Maynard Keynes
Schettkat, Ronald - 2018
After the publication of Keynes' "General Theory," economics was frequently described as schizophrenia: (neo-) classical at the micro-level, but Keynesian at the macro-level. In actuality, Keynes' revolution was, to a substantial part, based on the behavioral micro-foundations of the world we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140491
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The neoclassicals' conundrum: If Adam Smith is the father of economics, it is a bastard child
Valdes Viera, Oscar - 2017
Neoclassical economists of the current era frequently pay lip service to Adam Smith's theories to certify the validity of natural-laws-based, laissez-faire policies. However, neoclassical theories are fundamentally disconnected from Adam Smith's notion of value, his understanding of the economic...
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The Contributions of Professor Amartya Sen in the Fieldof Human Rights
Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist ProfessorAmartya Sen from the perspective of human … rights. It assesses the ways inwhich Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rightsdiscourse in the disciplines … acrosstraditional disciplinary divides. The paper suggests that Sen’s development of a‘scholarly bridge’ between human rights and …
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The Federal Reserve We Need : It’s the Fed We Once Had
Canova, Timothy A. - 2011
This article considers the empirical record of the 1942-1951 period of Federal Reserve history when the Fed was more politically accountable and more independent of private financial interests. During the 1940s, federal spending was nearly twice as high as today, and federal borrowing was more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128342
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The Passage from Classical to Neo-Liberalism : Frank H. Knight's Role Re-Considered
Emmett, Ross B. - 2011
Where should we place Frank Knight in the passage from classical liberalism to neo-liberalism? The argument has recently been made by that Knight should be placed among the group of liberals of an “older generation” that neo-liberals generally, and the Chicago School in particular, separated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128838
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Veiling the Controversies with Dubious Moral Attitudes? Creditors and Debtors in Keynes’s Ethics of International Economic Relations
Carabelli, Anna - 2011
This paper addresses the enduring insistence on the moral dimension of international economic relations in Keynes's economics and diplomacy. The issue has so far raised scarce attention in the literature, which tend to attribute some outstanding failures of Keynes's economic diplomacy to the...
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