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Aristotelian themes in critical ethical naturalism 批判伦理自然主义中的亚里士多德主题
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-05-27 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead014
A. Ragkousis
Key features of critical ethical naturalism (CEN) can be more fully appreciated by considering them in relation to themes in Aristotle’s ethics and politics. Drawing on Aristotle’s writings, four central features of CEN are explored. The first aspect of CEN considered concerns its recognition that we are community beings that are mutually constituted and subject to co-development, Aristotle’s discussion of character friendship and our essentially political nature supports a fuller appreciation of what this involves and implies. A second aspect of CEN examined relates to the use of the term ‘eudaimonia’ to refer to a life of a human fulfilled (a life of flourishing)—Aristotle’s own use of the term is considered and shown to be valuable in clarifying its deployment in CEN. The third feature of CEN discussed concerns the extent to which all humans are critical ethical naturalists due to their inherent dispositions to care. Aristotle is seen as supporting the view that we have an inbuilt tendency to care but is shown to also maintain that humans, when rational, choose to endorse their caring (rather than other) tendencies not simply because they are natural but because they are good. These insights enable a better appreciation of CEN’s claims by clarifying the connections between our rational faculties and our innate tendencies to care for others. Finally, the recognition in CEN of the vulnerabilities of humans stemming from their communal nature and the analysis of ways in which certain configurations of social relations weaken our tendencies to care and form obstacles in the path to a good society are shown to echo important reservations Aristotle had about certain forms of association. Aristotle’s notion of organicity in the development of social arrangements is shown to provide useful clarifications regarding the notion of authenticity (and its connections with human flourishing) as the latter is deployed in CEN.
批判性伦理自然主义(CEN)的主要特征可以通过将其与亚里士多德伦理学和政治学的主题联系起来来更充分地理解。借鉴亚里士多德的著作,探讨了CEN的四个核心特征。CEN考虑的第一个方面是承认我们是相互构成并共同发展的共同体,亚里士多德对性格友谊和我们本质上的政治本质的讨论支持对这一点的更充分理解。欧洲标准化委员会审查的第二个方面涉及使用“eudaimonia”一词来指代人类的充实生活(繁荣的生活)——亚里士多德自己对该词的使用被认为并被证明有助于澄清其在欧洲标准化组织中的部署。CEN讨论的第三个特征涉及到,由于人类天生的关爱倾向,所有人类在多大程度上都是批判性的伦理自然主义者。亚里士多德被视为支持这样一种观点,即我们有一种内在的关爱倾向,但他也坚持认为,当人类理性时,选择支持他们的关爱(而不是其他)倾向,不仅仅是因为他们是天生的,而是因为他们是善良的。这些见解通过澄清我们的理性能力和我们照顾他人的内在倾向之间的联系,使我们能够更好地理解CEN的主张。最后,CEN对人类因其社区性质而产生的脆弱性的认识,以及对某些社会关系结构削弱我们在通往美好社会的道路上关心和形成障碍的倾向的分析,都表明了亚里士多德对某些形式的联系的重要保留。亚里士多德在社会安排发展中的组织性概念被证明对真实性概念(及其与人类繁荣的联系)提供了有用的澄清,因为后者在CEN中被部署。
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引用次数: 1
The human person, the human social individual and community interactions 人类、人类社会个体和社区互动
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-05-23 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead016
T. Lawson
An account of the nature of human community organising structures has been systemised as social positioning theory. Here I explore the sorts of human entities that are able successfully to draw on and make use of community structures of the form portrayed in the theory, focussing especially on the sorts of human community interactions that are facilitated.
对人类社区组织结构性质的描述已被系统化为社会定位理论。在这里,我探索了能够成功地借鉴和利用理论中所描述的社区结构的人类实体,特别关注促进的人类社区互动。
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引用次数: 2
Joan Robinson and the reconstruction of economic theory 琼·罗宾逊与经济理论的重建
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-05-20 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead018
N. Martins
Joan Robinson provided numerous contributions to economic theory, ranging from her earlier approach to imperfect competition to her participation in the Keynesian revolution, which had a significant influence in the Cambridge heterodox wing, and Post-Keynesianism. But towards the end of her life, her rejection of received theories was great enough to be often interpreted as a form of theoretical nihilism. However, at this stage she also outlined a radical project for a reconstruction of economic theory, drawing on her notion of historical time, while placing distribution at the centre of economic theory. This later project of a reconstruction of economic theory is revisited here, focussing on the various difficulties it faced, and its overall significance and impact.
琼·罗宾逊对经济理论做出了许多贡献,从她早期对不完全竞争的研究,到她参与凯恩斯主义革命(对剑桥非正统派产生了重大影响),再到后凯恩斯主义。但在她生命的最后,她对公认理论的拒绝程度之大,常常被解释为理论虚无主义的一种形式。然而,在这个阶段,她也勾勒出了一个重建经济理论的激进计划,利用她的历史时间概念,同时将分配置于经济理论的中心。这个稍后的重建经济理论的项目在这里被重新审视,重点是它所面临的各种困难,以及它的总体意义和影响。
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引用次数: 0
Mapping modern economic rents: the good, the bad, and the grey areas 绘制现代经济租金图:好的、坏的和灰色地带
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-05-12 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead013
M. Mazzucato, Josh Ryan‐Collins, Giorgos Gouzoulis
There is increasing consensus that modern capitalist economies suffer from excessive rent extraction in both financial and real economy sectors. However, scholars have yet to develop a coherent analytical framework for identifying the common characteristics of modern economic rents. In particular, there has been little attention paid to distinguishing ‘good’ rents—key to innovation and growth—from ‘bad’ forms which contribute to economic stagnation and inequalities of wealth and income. This paper takes some first steps in this direction. We first review the existing rent theory most pertinent to this distinction, including classical political economy, the early twentieth century institutionalists, neoclassical perspectives and Keynes’s analysis of financial rentiers. Secondly, we map and conceptualise some key stylised features of modern rents, drawing on descriptive empirical evidence. We then identify the key questions that these developments raise for rent theory, elaborating a new research and policy agenda.
越来越多的人认为,现代资本主义经济在金融和实体经济领域都存在过度抽租的问题。然而,学者们尚未建立一个连贯的分析框架来识别现代经济租金的共同特征。特别是,很少有人注意区分“好”租金(创新和增长的关键)和“坏”租金(导致经济停滞和财富和收入不平等)。本文在这个方向上迈出了一些第一步。我们首先回顾了与这一区别最相关的现有租金理论,包括古典政治经济学、20世纪初的制度主义者、新古典主义观点和凯恩斯对金融食利者的分析。其次,我们绘制和概念化现代租金的一些关键的风格化特征,借鉴描述性的经验证据。然后,我们确定了这些发展为租金理论提出的关键问题,并制定了新的研究和政策议程。
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引用次数: 4
Wealth taxation in the Austrian Press from 2005 to 2020: a critical political economy analysis 奥地利出版社2005年至2020年的财富税:批判性政治经济学分析
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-05-06 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead011
Quirin Dammerer, Georg Hubmann, Hendrik Theine
This study focuses on the Austrian media coverage of wealth taxes by conducting a content analysis of all commentary pieces published in 2005–2020 by five Austrian daily newspapers. We find (i) that the majority of commentaries take a negative position towards wealth taxation, (ii) that journalists write more negative comments than guest authors do and (iii) 50 argumentative patterns in five main categories. In light of these findings, we discuss several potential drivers of the predominantly negative wealth taxation coverage: the high degree of ownership concentration by wealthy families and institutions in the Austrian newspaper market, the importance of advertising to fund newspapers and the influence of elite institutions as providers of information. Finally, we embed our findings in recent literature and illustrate similarities and differences of the German and Austrian media coverage of wealth taxation.
本研究通过对五家奥地利日报在2005-2020年发表的所有评论文章进行内容分析,重点关注奥地利媒体对财富税的报道。我们发现(i)大多数评论对财富税持负面立场,(ii)记者写的负面评论比客座作者多,(iii)五大类50种争论模式。根据这些发现,我们讨论了以负财富税为主的报道的几个潜在驱动因素:富裕家庭和机构在奥地利报纸市场的高度所有权集中,广告对资助报纸的重要性,以及精英机构作为信息提供者的影响力。最后,我们将我们的发现嵌入到最近的文献中,并说明德国和奥地利媒体对财富税报道的异同。
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引用次数: 0
Algorithms of time: how algorithmic management changes the temporalities of work and prospects for working time reduction 时间算法:算法管理如何改变工作的时效性以及减少工作时间的前景
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-05-05 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead017
Agnieszka Piasna
Algorithmic management has a clear potential to reduce time spent at work by increasing efficiency in task allocation and performance, and by replacing some forms of human labour. As a result it should, in theory, advance the implementation of working time reduction policies. Automation of organisational functions indeed increases time-efficiency through the scheduling of work in more finely grained time units, closely matched with demand and the minimising of unproductive periods. This results in atomised and punctuated working time. However, instead of an increase in leisure time, workers who are managed algorithmically experience pressures towards incessant availability. This results in an apparent paradox whereby the time needed to complete paid work shrinks, but the time that must be made available for work expands. This article addresses this puzzle by developing an analytical approach to understanding changes to the temporalities of work ushered by the introduction and expansion of algorithmic management.
通过提高任务分配和绩效的效率,以及通过取代某些形式的人力劳动,算法管理显然有可能减少工作时间。因此,从理论上讲,它应该推进减少工作时间政策的实施。组织功能的自动化确实通过在更细粒度的时间单位中安排工作来提高时间效率,与需求紧密匹配,并将非生产性时期最小化。这导致了雾化和间断的工作时间。然而,那些被算法管理的员工并没有增加闲暇时间,而是承受着持续可用性的压力。这导致了一个明显的矛盾,即完成有偿工作所需的时间缩短了,但必须用于工作的时间却增加了。本文通过开发一种分析方法来理解由算法管理的引入和扩展所带来的工作临时性的变化,从而解决了这个难题。
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引用次数: 0
Sluggish investment, crisis and firm heterogeneity 投资低迷、危机与企业异质性
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead015
A. Arrighetti, F. Landini
The stagnation of investments and its causes have attracted great attention in the recent economic debate. In this paper, we show that during the Great Recession, the flattening of the capital formation rate at the firm level is not due to lower average propensity to invest. Rather, it is the result of growing heterogeneity of choices among firms. While a subset of firms is oriented towards increasing investments, another group substantially divest. The result is a polarization of conducts that tend to cancel each other out, resulting in a flattening of aggregate investment. We argue that this asymmetry in firm’s decisions depends on two main factors. The first one is the diversity of corporate strategies, which firms have developed in the past. The second driver is managerial discretion, that plays an important role in the adoption of specific investment/divestment trajectories when faced with a recession. The results of our empirical analysis provide strong support for our hypotheses: after controlling for contextual and firm-specific structural, financial and demographic variables, corporate strategies and managerial discretion in the allocation of liquid assets explain large part of the heterogeneity in investment decisions during the recession. Policy implications are discussed.
在最近的经济辩论中,投资停滞及其原因引起了极大的关注。在本文中,我们证明了在大衰退期间,企业层面的资本形成率趋于平缓不是由于平均投资倾向的降低。相反,这是企业选择日益多样化的结果。虽然一部分公司倾向于增加投资,但另一部分公司则大幅撤资。其结果是两极分化的行为倾向于相互抵消,导致总投资趋于平缓。我们认为,企业决策的这种不对称取决于两个主要因素。第一个是企业战略的多样性,这是企业在过去发展起来的。第二个驱动因素是管理层的自由裁量权,在面临衰退时,它在采取特定的投资/撤资轨迹方面发挥着重要作用。我们的实证分析结果为我们的假设提供了强有力的支持:在控制了背景和企业特定的结构、财务和人口变量之后,企业战略和流动性资产配置中的管理自由裁量权解释了经济衰退期间投资决策的大部分异质性。讨论了政策影响。
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引用次数: 1
The degree of utilisation and the slow adjustment of capacity to demand: reflections on the US Economy from the perspective of the Sraffian Supermultiplier 利用程度和产能对需求的缓慢调整——从斯拉维超级乘数的角度思考美国经济
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-04-26 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead010
Guilherme Haluska, Ricardo Summa, Franklin Serrano
The purpose of this paper is to show that the Sraffian Supermultiplier demand-led growth model with an exogenous normal degree of capacity utilisation can be used to analyse the long-lasting reduction in the average actual degree of capacity utilisation in the US economy since the early 2000s. We follow the concept of normal degree of utilisation proposed by Ciccone and we use a simple version of the Supermultiplier model in which the adjustment of capacity to demand is slow. We show this in two steps. First, we examined the data for the industrial sector for the US economy and found no relevant change in the average-to-peak indicators, which could indicate a general reduction in the normal degree of capacity utilisation. Second, we made two simulations based on our simple Sraffian Supermultiplier model to demonstrate that (i) the process of convergence of actual utilisation to its given normal degree is slow and the model is compatible with long and lasting deviations between actual and normal utilisation after large shocks, and (ii) that successive decreases in output growth rates in the US economy since the begin of the 2000s, combined with a flexible accelerator mechanism, could explain the decrease in average utilisation.
本文的目的是表明,具有外生正常产能利用度的Srafian超级乘数需求驱动增长模型可用于分析自21世纪初以来美国经济平均实际产能利用率的长期下降。我们遵循Ciccone提出的正常利用度的概念,并使用超级乘数模型的简单版本,其中容量对需求的调整是缓慢的。我们分两步展示这一点。首先,我们研究了美国经济的工业部门数据,发现平均值与峰值指标没有相关变化,这可能表明产能利用率的正常程度普遍下降。其次,我们基于简单的Srafian超级乘数模型进行了两次模拟,以证明(i)实际利用率收敛到其给定正态程度的过程是缓慢的,并且该模型与大冲击后实际利用率和正态利用率之间的长期和持久偏差相兼容,以及(ii)自2000年代初以来,美国经济产出增长率的连续下降,再加上灵活的加速机制,可以解释平均利用率的下降。
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Exchange liquidity and redemption liquidity 兑换流动性和赎回流动性
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-04-21 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead012
J. Culham
Disagreements over the nature of money and consequent confusions regarding liquidity contribute to difficulties integrating monetary theory into the theory of value. For example, an abundance of market liquidity is assumed in asset pricing, whereas a scarcity of monetary liquidity is deemed necessary for consumer price-level determinacy. This paper builds on the insights gained from the evolution of finance to introduce a distinction between exchange liquidity and redemption liquidity as a means of resolving this conceptual dissonance. Both exchange and redemption liquidity can be conceptualised as types of financial option differing in the exercise mechanism offered to the option holder by the option-writer.
关于货币本质的分歧以及随之而来的关于流动性的困惑,造成了将货币理论整合到价值理论中的困难。例如,在资产定价中假定市场流动性充裕,而货币流动性的稀缺性则被认为是消费者价格水平确定性所必需的。本文基于从金融演变中获得的见解,介绍了交换流动性和赎回流动性之间的区别,作为解决这一概念失调的一种手段。交换流动性和赎回流动性都可以被概念化为期权出售者提供给期权持有人的不同行使机制的金融期权类型。
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Menger or Marx? The political ontology of cryptocurrency 门格尔还是马克思?加密货币的政治本体论
IF 2 2区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Pub Date : 2023-04-21 DOI: 10.1093/cje/bead008
Tully Rector, J. Allen
One of the perennial fault-lines in monetary theory is that between commodity and credit theories of money. The emergence of alternative payment systems based on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, of which Bitcoin is the most prominent example, has raised a host of important questions in relation to this debate. This article considers two. The first is ontological: Are Bitcoin and similar ‘cryptocurrencies’ best conceived of as money? The second is political: Do these money candidates represent an emancipatory development over state-backed fiat currency? The ontological question, we will argue, invites the political one. If it is the case, as Chartalists maintain, that (i) for some X to be money it must have certain properties which can only be imparted by political authority (broadly understood) and if (ii) political authority ought to be subject to public control, then attempts by private actors to usurp a social ‘money function’ cannot count as legitimate political developments. We will argue in support of this position. This discussion is limited to Bitcoin, though its implications generalize for relevantly similar cryptocurrencies. Our method involves considering, first, claims made by Bitcoin’s defenders about its status as money, and what accounts for that status. While these claims are often thought to extend Mengerite or generally Austrian lines of economic argument, they resonate more with Marx’s theory of monetary value. Moreover, a close assessment of that theory’s defects yields specific normative conclusions that potentially undermine the notion that Bitcoin constitutes a valid means of resisting state monetary authority.
货币理论中一条长期存在的断层线是货币的商品理论和信贷理论之间的断层线。基于区块链和分布式账本技术的替代支付系统的出现,比特币是其中最突出的例子,引发了一系列与这场辩论有关的重要问题。本文考虑两个方面。第一个是本体论:比特币和类似的“加密货币”最好被认为是货币吗?第二个问题是政治问题:这些货币候选人是否代表了对国家支持的法定货币的解放发展?我们将争辩说,本体论问题邀请了政治问题。如果像宪章主义者所坚持的那样,(i)某些X是货币,它必须具有某些只能由政治权威(广泛理解)赋予的属性,如果(ii)政治权威应该受到公共控制,那么私人行为者篡夺社会“货币功能”的企图就不能算作合法的政治发展。我们将支持这一立场。本次讨论仅限于比特币,尽管其含义适用于相关相似的加密货币。我们的方法包括,首先,考虑比特币的捍卫者对其货币地位的说法,以及这种地位的原因。虽然这些主张通常被认为是对蒙格里特或奥地利经济学论点的延伸,但它们与马克思的货币价值理论产生了更多的共鸣。此外,对该理论缺陷的仔细评估会得出具体的规范性结论,这些结论可能会破坏比特币是抵抗国家货币当局的有效手段的观念。
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