The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to David Card “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”, and to Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. Lennart B. Ackermans reflects on Card, Angrist, and Imben's work.
为了纪念阿尔弗雷德·诺贝尔,2021年瑞典央行经济学奖被授予大卫·卡德(David Card)“对劳动经济学的实证贡献”,以及约书亚·安格里斯特(Joshua Angrist)和圭多·因本斯(Guido Imbens)“对因果关系分析的方法论贡献”。Lennart B. Ackermans回顾了Card, Angrist和Imben的工作。
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As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), S.M. Love argues that only the Kantian view can justify Vrousalis’ argument for the injustice of exploitation, and gives a more detailed account of the injustice of domination within the Kantian framework.
{"title":"The Injustice of Domination","authors":"S. Love","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.762","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), S.M. Love argues that only the Kantian view can justify Vrousalis’ argument for the injustice of exploitation, and gives a more detailed account of the injustice of domination within the Kantian framework.","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":"735 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41274043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is common to find causal statements in economics journals. In a recent article, for example, Babina et al. claim that “negative federal funding shocks reduce high-tech entrepreneurship and publications but increase patenting” (2023, 1). Unfortunately, t he actual meaning of ‘cause’ is not always explicitly spelled out. What does ‘cause’ mean in these statements? Do they connote the same meaning? More concretely, what do economists mean when they say X causes Y ? These questions motivate Mariusz Ma-ziarz’s i ntriguing book on causality. Based on a previous systematic literature analysis
{"title":"Review of Mariusz Maziarz’s The Philosophy of Causality in Economics: Causal Inferences and Policy Proposals. New York: Routledge, 2020, xiv + 208 pp.","authors":"Fernando Varela Levy","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.760","url":null,"abstract":"It is common to find causal statements in economics journals. In a recent article, for example, Babina et al. claim that “negative federal funding shocks reduce high-tech entrepreneurship and publications but increase patenting” (2023, 1). Unfortunately, t he actual meaning of ‘cause’ is not always explicitly spelled out. What does ‘cause’ mean in these statements? Do they connote the same meaning? More concretely, what do economists mean when they say X causes Y ? These questions motivate Mariusz Ma-ziarz’s i ntriguing book on causality. Based on a previous systematic literature analysis","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42485258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This book characterizes the EU in more than one way. The EU allegedly exemplifies inter alia economic constitutionalism, benign despotism, welfare corporatism, executive federalism, technocratic managerialism, and authoritarian populism. This might suggest that the author prioritizes flowery description over analytical precision. Not so, as the central claim that the EU should first and foremost be characterized by the first two words of the title, ‘ authoritarian liberalism ’ , remains clear throughout. As such, the argument has two components. First, the name of the game in the EU — and previously in the European Economic Community — is liber-alism. Second, this liberalism is authoritarian. Wilkinson’s aim is to “open the space to develop critical theories of European integration, not as some form of external constraint, or experiment gone awry” (viii), but as a project destined to become what the title of the book claims it is. He contrasts himself with academics who view the EU as a ‘ sacred object ’ that is not without flaws but also not inherently authoritarian. The book develops the argument in four parts. In the first part, Inter-war, the inherent tension in interwar liberalism — that is, how to reconcile political equality with economic
{"title":"Review of Michael A. Wilkinson’s Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021, xvi + 335 pp.","authors":"D. Hollanders","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.761","url":null,"abstract":"This book characterizes the EU in more than one way. The EU allegedly exemplifies inter alia economic constitutionalism, benign despotism, welfare corporatism, executive federalism, technocratic managerialism, and authoritarian populism. This might suggest that the author prioritizes flowery description over analytical precision. Not so, as the central claim that the EU should first and foremost be characterized by the first two words of the title, ‘ authoritarian liberalism ’ , remains clear throughout. As such, the argument has two components. First, the name of the game in the EU — and previously in the European Economic Community — is liber-alism. Second, this liberalism is authoritarian. Wilkinson’s aim is to “open the space to develop critical theories of European integration, not as some form of external constraint, or experiment gone awry” (viii), but as a project destined to become what the title of the book claims it is. He contrasts himself with academics who view the EU as a ‘ sacred object ’ that is not without flaws but also not inherently authoritarian. The book develops the argument in four parts. In the first part, Inter-war, the inherent tension in interwar liberalism — that is, how to reconcile political equality with economic","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42877281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The notion of self-interest has a very long presence in economic discourse and has played a central role in the development of mainstream microe-conomics. Contemporary mainstream economic theorists do not refer to self-interest as much, but they assume human agents are rational in the Homo Economicus sense
{"title":"Review of Susumu Egashira, Masanori Taishido, D. Wade Hands, and Uskali Mäki’s (editors) A Genealogy of Self-Interest in Economics. Singapore: Springer, 2021, vi + 325 pp.","authors":"Stavros A. Drakopoulos","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.758","url":null,"abstract":"The notion of self-interest has a very long presence in economic discourse and has played a central role in the development of mainstream microe-conomics. Contemporary mainstream economic theorists do not refer to self-interest as much, but they assume human agents are rational in the Homo Economicus sense","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49644434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), Gulzaar Barn suggests that while Vrousalis' account provides a compelling story of why capitalist labour relations are unjustly exploitative, difficulties arise in its application to other cases such as surrogacy.
{"title":"Exploitation and Domination in Application","authors":"Gulzaar Barn","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.757","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), Gulzaar Barn suggests that while Vrousalis' account provides a compelling story of why capitalist labour relations are unjustly exploitative, difficulties arise in its application to other cases such as surrogacy.","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48283218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), Lucas Stanczyk argues that his reciprocity account of the central wrong-making feature of domination is superior to Vrousalis' domination account.
{"title":"What Makes Exploitation Wrongful?","authors":"L. Stanczyk","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.752","url":null,"abstract":"As part of a book symposium on Nicholas Vrousalis' Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust (2023), Lucas Stanczyk argues that his reciprocity account of the central wrong-making feature of domination is superior to Vrousalis' domination account. ","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47054872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Robert Skidelsky’s What’s Wrong With Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2020, ix + 248 pp.","authors":"Ella Needler, Maria João Pimenta","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.751","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45685224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncertainty for uncertain decision makers","authors":"Malvina Ongaro","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.733","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46834204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Model-Based and Mechanistic Approach to Social Coordination","authors":"Matti Sarkia","doi":"10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.731","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37914,"journal":{"name":"Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46433885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}