Alain Bresson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691183411
- eISBN:
- 9781400852451
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691183411.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter describes the conceptual framework used by the book to study the economy of ancient Greece. It begins with a discussion of the debate between “primitivists,” represented by Karl Bücher, ...
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This chapter describes the conceptual framework used by the book to study the economy of ancient Greece. It begins with a discussion of the debate between “primitivists,” represented by Karl Bücher, and “modernists,” represented by Eduard Meyer, over the nature of the ancient Greek economy. It considers Bücher's adherence to the so-called German Historical School of Political Economy and goes on to examine the views of Moses I. Finley and Max Weber regarding the ancient economy, Karl Polanyi's use of institutionalism as an approach to the study of the ancient economy, and the main assumptions of New Institutional Economics (NIE) with regard to the genesis and evolution of institutions. The chapter also analyzes the transaction costs theory and concludes with an assessment of criticisms against the classical economists' economic agent, the homo economicus, and the influence of constrained choices and limited rationality on economic performance.Less
This chapter describes the conceptual framework used by the book to study the economy of ancient Greece. It begins with a discussion of the debate between “primitivists,” represented by Karl Bücher, and “modernists,” represented by Eduard Meyer, over the nature of the ancient Greek economy. It considers Bücher's adherence to the so-called German Historical School of Political Economy and goes on to examine the views of Moses I. Finley and Max Weber regarding the ancient economy, Karl Polanyi's use of institutionalism as an approach to the study of the ancient economy, and the main assumptions of New Institutional Economics (NIE) with regard to the genesis and evolution of institutions. The chapter also analyzes the transaction costs theory and concludes with an assessment of criticisms against the classical economists' economic agent, the homo economicus, and the influence of constrained choices and limited rationality on economic performance.
Marilyn Fischer
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226631325
- eISBN:
- 9780226631462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226631462.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
This chapter examines how Addams revised previously written essays for Democracy and Social Ethics. Aside from the Introduction, little in the book is new. This chapter demonstrates that Addams’s ...
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This chapter examines how Addams revised previously written essays for Democracy and Social Ethics. Aside from the Introduction, little in the book is new. This chapter demonstrates that Addams’s principal revision was to replace the conceptual categories from British socialism and German anthropology she had used in the essays with “individual ethics” and “social ethics,” categories drawn from the German Historical School of Economics. The result is that Democracy and Social Ethics lacks a consistent, coherent line of reasoning. The meanings of key words such as democracy, sympathy, and experience are truncated and it is more difficult for readers to recognize Addams’s evolutionary arguments. Yet, the chapter concludes, in leaving the book conceptually untidy, Addams produced a richer, more enduring text. By defining individual ethics and social ethics loosely, Addams widened the entrance to her thought, encouraging readers to participate in creating the text’s meanings.Less
This chapter examines how Addams revised previously written essays for Democracy and Social Ethics. Aside from the Introduction, little in the book is new. This chapter demonstrates that Addams’s principal revision was to replace the conceptual categories from British socialism and German anthropology she had used in the essays with “individual ethics” and “social ethics,” categories drawn from the German Historical School of Economics. The result is that Democracy and Social Ethics lacks a consistent, coherent line of reasoning. The meanings of key words such as democracy, sympathy, and experience are truncated and it is more difficult for readers to recognize Addams’s evolutionary arguments. Yet, the chapter concludes, in leaving the book conceptually untidy, Addams produced a richer, more enduring text. By defining individual ethics and social ethics loosely, Addams widened the entrance to her thought, encouraging readers to participate in creating the text’s meanings.
Raphaël Fèvre
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- October 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197607800
- eISBN:
- 9780197607831
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197607800.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History, History of Economic Thought
The second chapter shows that, in the eyes of ordoliberals, power is the source of an epistemological problem. Eucken tried to acquire a scientific understanding of the driving forces underlying the ...
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The second chapter shows that, in the eyes of ordoliberals, power is the source of an epistemological problem. Eucken tried to acquire a scientific understanding of the driving forces underlying the economic order, what he called the actual economic reality. His ambition rested on a method to escape the given and immediate aspects of the reality, which seemed contaminated by vested interests. Thus, Eucken updated the old German methodological quarrel (Methodenstreit). In order to resolve the great antinomy between theory and history, Eucken suggested articulating these two approaches by means of his theory of orders. Eucken aimed at applying theoretical analysis to the uses and abuses of power in the economy but without falling under the influence of the expression of vested interests.Less
The second chapter shows that, in the eyes of ordoliberals, power is the source of an epistemological problem. Eucken tried to acquire a scientific understanding of the driving forces underlying the economic order, what he called the actual economic reality. His ambition rested on a method to escape the given and immediate aspects of the reality, which seemed contaminated by vested interests. Thus, Eucken updated the old German methodological quarrel (Methodenstreit). In order to resolve the great antinomy between theory and history, Eucken suggested articulating these two approaches by means of his theory of orders. Eucken aimed at applying theoretical analysis to the uses and abuses of power in the economy but without falling under the influence of the expression of vested interests.
