Overview
- A timely reflection on the fundamentals of economics in the light of the current financial and economic global crisis
- Builds on elements from Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen, to propose a way of defining concepts and making decisions about development
- Suggests the development of normative models of mechanisms to obtain development objectives through practical reason or public discussion
- Includes a useful discussion on ways to improve the Indexes of the United Nations Development Program?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- Amartya Sen's Capability Approach
- Aristotle and Sen
- Aristotle and Sen
- Aristotle on Lists
- Cartwright–Anscombe Connection
- Cartwright–Aristotle Connection
- Cartwright–Mill Connection
- Economics and Ethics
- Epistemology of Capacities
- Identification of Valuable Capabilities
- Nancy Cartwright, Capacities and Nomological Machines
- Ontology of Capacities
- Practical Reason in Social Science
- Rationality of Economics
- Sen’s Capability Approach
- Skepticism about Capacities
- Socio-Economic
- Socio-economic Machines
- The Aristotelian Contribution to the Capability Approach
- The Human Development Index (HDI)
- United Nations Development Programme
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics
Book Subtitle: Capacities and Capabilities
Authors: Ricardo F. Crespo
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5564-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5563-5Published: 26 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5564-2Published: 25 September 2012
Series ISSN: 2211-4548
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 109
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Ethics, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Epistemology
Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking