Spanish Abstract: El referente teórico al que se nos ha acostumbrado mirar, cuando pretendemos establecer algún tipo de análisis sobre el desarrollo, ha sido aquel que pretende valorar el nivel de garantías de condiciones materiales de las cuales dispone inmediata o potencialmente un país....

This paper questions the common view that Darwinian biology is a straightforward extension of classical political economy. Our analysis contrasts the economists' classification scheme - whereby all humans were presumed natural kids, to be equally competent for economic and political decision...

This brief essay sketches the ways in which four leading economic thinkers (Knight, Coase, Posner and Sunstein) have dealt with a vexing tension in the relations of economics to law, the state, and the social. The tension arises as microeconomists address (or fail to address) the relations of...

El referente teórico al que se nos ha acostumbrado mirar, cuando pretendemos establecer algún tipo de análisis sobre el desarrollo, ha sido aquel que pretende valorar el nivel de garantías de condiciones materiales de las cuales dispone inmediata o potencialmente un país.Bajo esta lógica,...

Within the context of the New Economic Sociology, Karl Polanyi is almost universally considered the “father” of the concept of embeddedness. However, this concept has been subject to selective appropriation by this discipline and its relationship to the remaining theoretical edifice...

Folk Economics' ist die Wirtschafts-'Theorie' und analog ist 'Folk Ethics' die Moral-"Theorie" des gesundes Menschenverstandes. Typisch für 'folk-economic beliefs' sind fehlerhafte Kausalattributionen. Typisch für 'folk-ethical beliefs' sind utopische oder dysfunktionale Bewertungsmaßstäbe....

Folk economics' is the economic 'theory' of common sense, and analogously 'folk ethics' is the moral 'theory' of common sense. Typical of 'folk-economic beliefs' are erroneous causal attributions. Typical of 'folk-ethical beliefs' are utopian or dysfunctional criteria for moral judgments. The...