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Cordial Rationality: The Language of Human Cooperation

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The Cordial Economy - Ethics, Recognition and Reciprocity

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The role played by reciprocity and other intangible assets for the economy, as well as the confirmation of the motivational heterogeneity and moral commitment that underlie them, demonstrate the need to extend the margins of economic rationality in an affective and communicative sense in order to introduce into the information base variables like prosocial emotions , and the values, norms or principles forming part of economic agents ’ conduct and decision-making processes. From the ethical and emotional anchorage proposed through cordial reciprocity , and without ignoring the necessary strategic-technical dimension of economic rationality, the aim of this chapter is to elucidate a suitable proposal for economic rationality to guide and provide information about economic agents’ conduct and decisions in the area of economics.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    To learn about the basic aspects of this argument, see Olson (1965).

  2. 2.

    To go further into these reciprocity approaches, see Calvo (2012: 133–166).

  3. 3.

    See Calvo (2012a) for this economic rationality approach study by Ostrom .

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    Accordingly, Ostrom argues that if rationality is interpreted based on the criterion of the largest possible profit, it would be senseless for the economic discourse to marginalize those emotions allowing optimum balances whose performance is far superior to that observed for merely selfishic behaviour (1990, 2000, 2003, 2012).

  5. 5.

    To learn what the Valencia School contributed to discourse ethics , see Cortina (2008: 10–27).

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    For further information about the contributions made by various researchers, see Conill (2006a).

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Calvo, P. (2018). Cordial Rationality: The Language of Human Cooperation. In: The Cordial Economy - Ethics, Recognition and Reciprocity. Ethical Economy, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90784-0_7

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