The Journal of Philosophical Economics

2007 - 2022

Current editor(s): Valentin Cojanu

From Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, The Journal of Philosophical Economics
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Crises, confidence, and animal spirits:exploring subjectivity in the dualism of Descartes and Keynes pp. 1-28: Sonya Marie Scott
Descartes and the notion of animal spirits: a brief historico-philosophical remark on Sonya Marie Scott’s ‘Crises, confidence, and animal spirits: exploring subjectivity in the dualism of Descartes and Keynes’ pp. 29-36: Kurt Smith
Reclaiming the University: transforming economics as a discipline pp. 37-66: Arne Heise
A comment on the law of supply and demand pp. 67-80: M. Northrup Buechner
A comment on ‘Comment on the law of supply and demand’ pp. 81-94: Emil Dinga

How to transform economics? A philosophical appraisal pp. 1-26: Deniz Kellecioglu
The order of social sciences: sociology in dialogue with neighbouring disciplines pp. 27-52: Dieter Bögenhold
Smith’s invisible hand: controversy is needed pp. 53-82: Flavia Di Mario and Andrea Micocci
Some thoughts on ancient civilizations’ trinity of philosophy, religion and economics pp. 83-102: Soumitra Sharma
A multidisciplinary-economic framework of analysis pp. 103-132: Piet Keizer

Economics, chrematistics, oikos and polis in Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas pp. 5-46: José Luis Cendejas Bueno
‘Growth in a Time of Debt’ as an example of the logical-positivist science pp. 47-64: Mariusz Maziarz
The dominion of means over ends. Modern bank credit and Max Weber’s irrational rationalization pp. 65-101: Domenico Cortese
Economic theory in historical perspective pp. 102-124: Lefteris Tsoulfidis
Review of Ajit Sinha, A Revolution in Economic Theory: The Economics of Piero Sraffa, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, x + 244 pages, ISBN 978-3319306155 pp. 125-131: Romar Correa

Aristotle on justice in exchange:commensurability by fiat pp. 5-27: Mark S. Peacock
Economic crisis, economic methodology and the scientific ideal of physics pp. 28-57: Stavros Drakopoulos
Planning horizons as an ordinal entropic measure of organization pp. 58-80: Frederic B. Jennings
‘Why has economics turned out this way?’ A socio-economic note on the explanation of monism in economics pp. 81-101: Arne Heise
Review of Altug Yalcintas, Intellectual Path Dependence in Economics: Why economists do not reject refuted theories, Routledge, 2016, hb, xiv + 173 pages, ISBN 978-1-138-01617-0 pp. 102-105: Valentin Cojanu
Review of Mary Godwin, Ethics and Diversity in Business Management Education. A Sociological Study with International Scope, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 2015, eb, x + 94 pages, ISBN 978-3-662-46654-4 pp. 106-109: Stipe Buzar

The case for increasing returns (2): the methods of planning horizons pp. 5-42: Frederic B. Jennings
Poor countries and development: a critique of Nicole Hassoun and a defense of the argument for good institutional quality pp. 43-70: Ronald Olufemi Badru
Rawls and Piketty: the philosophical aspects of economic inequality pp. 71-84: Goran Sunajko
Slow living and the green economy pp. 85-104: Diana-Eugenia Ioncica and Eva-Cristina Petrescu
Review of Potrosacka kultura i konzumerizam [Consumer Culture and Consumerism], edited by Snjezana Colic, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, 2013, pb, ISBN 978-953-7964-00-9, 206 pages pp. 105-108: Ana Maskalan
Review of Dani Rodrik, Economics Rules: Why Economics Works, When It Fails, and How to Tell the Difference, Oxford University Press, 2015, hb, ISBN 978-0-19-873689-9, xi+253 pages pp. 109-113: Dorin Iulian Chiritoiu
Review of J. E. King, Advanced Introduction to Post Keynesian Economics, Cheltenham (UK), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015, pb, ISBN 978-1-78254-843-0,x + 139 pages pp. 114-118: Valentin Cojanu

The case for increasing returns I: ‘The Hicksian Getaway’ and ‘The Hirshleifer Rescue’: Frederic B. Jennings
Economics in times of crisis. In search of a new paradigm in economic sciences: Joanna Dzionek-Kozłowska
The welfare costs of rent-seeking: a methodologically individualist and subjectivist revision: Michael Makovi
Economics of paternalism: the hidden costs of self-commanding strategies: Christophe Salvat
A criterion for realism, with an application to behavioral economic models: Gustavo Marqués and Diego Weisman
Review of The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking modernity in a new epoch, edited by Clive Hamilton, Christophe Bonneuil and François Gemenne, Routledge, London, 2015, pbk, ISBN 978-1-138-821124-8, pp. 187+xi: Valentin Cojanu

Editorial: Valentin Cojanu
Collective beliefs and horizontal interactions between groups: the case of political parties: Olivier Ouzilou
Work, recognition and subjectivization: some remarks about the modernity of Kojève’s interpretation of Hegel: Richard Sobel
Expiration of private property rights: a note: Walter E. Block
‘Ups’ and ‘downs’ in metaphor use: the case of increase / decrease metaphors in Spanish economic discourse: Anca Pecican
A review of the Granger-causality fallacy: Mariusz Maziarz
A brief history of international trade thought: From pre-doctrinal contributions to the 21st century heterodox international economics: Carmen Elena Dorobat
Review of Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, New York, Verso, 1st edition, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-781-68079-7, 384 pages: Serban Brebenel
Review of Abdul Azim Islahi, History of Islamic Economic Thought: Contributions of Muslim Scholars to Economic Thought and Analysis, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK), hb, 2014, ISBN 9781784711375, viii+125 pages: Valentin Cojanu

Social mechanisms and social causation: Friedel Weinert
Modeling exogenous moral norms: Ross A. Tippit
Shifting economics: fundamental questions and Amartya K. Sen’s pragmatic humanism: Tara Natarajan
A comment on scarcity: M. Northrup Buechner
Commentary on secrets of economics editors: an unintended ethnography of economics: Utku Balaban
Review of Jérôme Ballet, Damien Bazin, Jean-Luc Dubois, and François-Régis Mahieu, Freedom, Responsibility and Economics of the Person, London, Routledge, ebk, 2014, 174 pp., ISBN 978-0-203-79633-7: Carmen Elena Dorobat
Review of Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald, Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development and Social Progress, New York, Columbia University Press, 2014, hb, 34.95$, 680 pp., ISBN 978-0-231-15214-3: Alina Toarna